Williams v. Melby’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 10 Cal. 4th 1185 - Peterson v. Superior Court (1995), Beach v. University of Utah (1986)
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 55 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 15 Cal. 3d 40 - Weirum v. RKO General, Inc. · Ethel Javins v. First National Realty Corporation, Rudolph Saunders v. First National Realty Corporation, Stanley Gross v. First National Realty Corporation · Young v. Garwacki · Cummings v. Prater · ABC Builders, Inc. v. Phillips
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[This court has charged landlords with a duty to exercise reasonable care toward their tenants in all circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“elven though [Rose] may have been negligent, [a directed verdict] is [ordinarily] an altogether inappropriate procedure for assessing [his] degree of negligence against the negligence of the defendants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“injuries caused by any defects or dangerous conditions[.]”
2 later decisions 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.