Phillips v. Library Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently January 1968 · most notably Dalton v. St. Luke's Catholic Church (1958), Berger v. Shapiro (1959)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Bennett v. Railroad Co. · Victory v. . Baker · Gilbert v. Nagle
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * A person on private grounds, by invitation of the owner, going of his own volition into other parts of the premises, exceeds the bounds of his invitation, and, if he does not thereby become a trespasser, goes out of the way to create a risk for himself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The owner or occupier of land, who, by invitation, express or implied, induces persons to come upon the premises, is under a duty to exercise ordinary care to render the premises reasonably safe for such purposes.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the person injured did not act merely on motives of his own, to which no act or sign of the owner or occupier contributed, but that he entered the premises because he was led by the acts or conduct of the owner or occupier to believe that the premises were intended to be used in the manner in which he used them, and that such use was not only acquiesced in, but was in accordance with the intention or design for which the way or place was adapted and prepared or allowed to be used”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.