McMillan v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 98th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Gulbenkian v. Penn · Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. v. Glyn-Jones · Lunsford v. City of Bryan · Lipton v. Wilhite
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was to expressly prevent landowners who specialize in commercial recreation from wrongfully taking advantage of the statute.... The limited application of the statute to owners who charge a nominal entrance fee (presumably to defray costs of maintaining the property) rather than engaging in commercial recreation for profit is consistent with the overall purpose of the statute: to create and preserve land that the general public may use for recreational purposes.”
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.