Reynolds v. Willson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
4 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 2 Cal. 3d 205 - People v. Robles (1970), 53 Cal. 2d 427 - Yarrow v. State of California (1960)
4 district · 91 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 24 Cal. 2d 133 - Oettinger v. Stewart · 23 Cal. 2d 288 - Crane v. Smith · Peters v. Bowman · Palmquist v. Mercer · 115 Cal. App. 122 - Beeson v. City of Los Angeles
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(a) the place where the condition is maintained is one upon which the possessor knows or should know that such children are likely to trespass, and "(b) the condition is one of which the possessor knows or should know and which he realizes or should realize as involving an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm to such children, and "(c) the children because of their youth do not discover the condition or realize the risk involved in intermeddling in it or in coming within the area made dangerous by it, and "(d) the utility to the possessor of maintaining the condition is slight as compared to the risk to young children involved therein. ’ ’”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“There are some dangers common in the community which any child of sufficient age to be allowed at large may be expected to understand and appreciate such as the usual risks of fire and water, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.