Maher v. Voss’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2012
3 district · 8 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 Trowell v. Diamond Supply Co. · French v. Jeffries · Reardon v. Exchange Furniture Store, Inc. · Maher v. Voss · Carr v. Fox
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think that a jury might reasonably find that the plaintiff, standing safely upon what appeared to be the floor óf a closet, was misled by appearances, with some justification, into believing that it was safe to step further. The appearance of the opening, the hanging of the coats, the platform beneath her feet, and the dimness (but not complete absence) of light— all these facts taken together might well lead reasonable men to reject the conclusion that Mrs. Maher was careless of her own safety.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fahey v. Sayer““There can be no liability of the possessor of the premises to a social guest if the danger is not on the portion of the premises to which he has been invited. The alleged duty to warn must therefore depend upon the existence of an invitation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fahey v. Sayer
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.