Singleton v. Charlebois Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2016
16 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 Keener v. Dayton Electric Manufacturing Company · Rustici v. Weidemeyer · Crown Cork & Seal Co. v. Kane Ex Rel. Eastern Motor Express, Inc. · Chubb Group of Insurance Companies v. C.F. Murphy & Associates, Inc. · Gilliland v. Bondurant
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trespasser, one who enters without permission of the possessor, is owed no duty with regard to the condition of the land. A licensee, one who enters with the permission of the possessor for the licensee’s own purpose, is owed a duty of reasonable care with regard to known hazards. An invitee, one who enters with the permission of the possessor for the benefit of the possessor, is owed a duty of reasonable care for hazards known or those that should be known, to the possessor. An invitation to enter land is defined as “conduct which justifies others in believing that the possessor desires them to enter.... Any words or conduct of the possessor which lead or encourage the visitor to believe that his entry is desired may be sufficient for the invitation." Thus, what constitutes an invitation is not necessarily what the possessor of the land intended, but rather what a reasonable person would interpret the conduct to mean.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“§ 332. Invitee Defined (1) An invitee is either a public invitee or a business visitor. (2) A public invitee is 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. (3) A business visitor is 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... is subject to liability to others upon or outside of the land for physical harm caused to them by the dangerous character of the structure or condition after his work has been accepted by the possessor, under the same rules as those determining the liability of one who as manufacturer or independent contractor makes a chattel for the use of others. Restatement (Second) of Torts § 385 (1965).”
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.