Observatory Corp. v. Daly’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2015
3 district · 21 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 Metropolitan Gas Repair Service, Inc. v. Kulik · University of Denver v. Whitlock · Taco Bell, Inc. v. Lannon · McFarlin v. Hall · Leake v. Cain
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an expression of the sum total of those considerations of policy which lead the law to say that the plaintiff is [or is not] entitled to protection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““§ 344. Business Premises Open to Public: Acts of Third Persons or Animals “A possessor of land who holds it open to the public for entry for his business purposes is subject to liability to members of the public while they are upon the land for such a purpose, for physical harm caused by the accidental, negligent, or intentionally harmful acts of third persons or animals, and by the failure of the possessor to exercise reasonable care to “(a) discover that such acts are being done or are likely to be done, or “(b) give a warning adequate to enable the visitors to avoid the harm, or otherwise to protect them against it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zueger v. Carlson“tavern proprietor's legal duty of care to patrons and other persons legitimately on the tavern premises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.