Gray v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2025
4 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 Rosensteil v. Lisdas
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had the duty to anticipate danger which is reasonably foreseeable and to take all precautions for the protection of their guests, which reasonable prudence and ordinary care would suggest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'until [the landowner] knows or has reason to know that the acts of the third person are occurring, or are about to occur.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“accidental, negligent, or intentionally harmful acts of third persons”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.