Burrell v. Meads’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Heins v. Webster County (1996), Cowe Ex Rel. Cowe v. Forum Group, Inc. (1991)
11 federal appellate · 114 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 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Means · Dwy v. Connecticut Co. · Hammond v. Allegretti · Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railway Co. v. Barnhart · Gaboury v. Ireland Road Grace Brethren, Inc.
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A possessor of land is subject to liability for physical harm caused to his invitees by a condition on the land if, but only if, he (a) knows or by the exercise of reasonable care would discover the condition, and should realize that it involves an unreasonable risk of harm to such invitees, and (b) should expect that they will not discover or realize the danger, or will fail to protect themselves against it, and (c) fails to exercise reasonable care to protect them against the danger.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a person who is invited to enter or remain on land for a purpose directly or indirectly connected with business dealings with the possessor of the land.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a person who is invited to enter or remain on land as a member of the public for a purpose for which the land is held open to the public.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.