Mellas v. Lowdermilk’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Zamora Ex Rel. Zamora v. J. Korber & Co. (1954), Casper v. Charles F. Smith & Son, Inc. (1989)
2 district · 28 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 Barker v. City of Santa Fe · Barnhart v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. · McCall v. McCallie · 112 Ind. App. 170 - Anderson v. Reith-Riley Construction Co. · Heimann v. Kinnare
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The purpose of the duty [of a possessor of land] is to protect children from dangers which they are unlikely to appreciate and not to protect them against harm resulting from their own immature recklessness in the case of known danger. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had the capacity to comprehend and avoid the danger he incurred in going upon the raft * * *.”
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.