Adams v. Fred's Dollar Store

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \[a] landowner need not make it impossible for persons to trespass before he may treat intruders as trespassers. To hold otherwise would be to come dangerously close to requiring that an owner be an insurer of the safety of those who unlawfully enter his property.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

53 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Leffler v. Sharp
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-11-10· cited 98×
• Corley v. Evans
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-01-16· cited 92×
• LITTLE BY LITTLE v. Bell
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-08-06· cited 87×
• Hudson v. Courtesy Motors, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-13· cited 85×
• Clark v. Moore Mem. United Meth. Church
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-01-25· cited 79×
• Payne v. Rain Forest Nurseries, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-03-08· cited 78×
• Saucier v. Biloxi Regional Medical Center
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-19· cited 65×
• Skelton v. Twin County Rural Elec. Ass'n
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-12-31· cited 57×
• Titus v. Williams
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-05-01· cited 52×
• Brocato v. Mississippi Publishers Corp.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-02-18· cited 47×
• Lucas v. B. Jones Ford Lincoln Mercury
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-01-06· cited 42×
• Gibson v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2004-04-20· cited 39×
• Davis v. Christian Brotherhood Homes of Jackson, Mississippi, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2007-05-08· cited 37×
• Doe v. Jameson Inn, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2011-01-13· cited 34×
• John T. Davis v. Illinois Central Railroad Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-01-24· cited 30×
• Grammar v. Dollar
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2005-09-13· cited 27×
• Shaw v. Petersen
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1991-06-11· cited 25×
• Webster v. Mississippi Publishers Corp.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-11-28· cited 24×
• Albert v. Scott's Truck Plaza, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-02-28· cited 23×
• Hall v. Cagle
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-09-28· cited 17×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Rowland v. Christian
  California Supreme Court· 1968-08-08· cited 1,329×
• Brown v. Credit Center, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-12-14· cited 543×
• Shaw v. Burchfield
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-11-13· cited 211×
• Wood v. Camp
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-10-03· cited 169×
• Hoffman v. Planters Gin Co., Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-05-24· cited 84×
• Gerchberg Ex Rel. Gerchberg v. Loney
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1978-02-25· cited 58×
• KELLEY, ADMR. v. Sportsmen's Speedway
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1955-06-13· cited 38×
• Hughes v. Star Homes, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-01-16· cited 37×
• Astleford v. Milner Enterprises, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1970-03-30· cited 34×
• Wright v. Caffey
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1960-10-24· cited 28×
• Marlon Investment Co. v. Conner
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1963-02-04· cited 28×
• Roy Dry, a Minor v. Ford
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1960-02-01· cited 27×
• White v. Mississippi Power & Light Company
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1967-02-27· cited 27×
• Lucas v. Mississippi Housing Authority No. 8
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-07-27· cited 26×
• Gray v. Baker
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-03-26· cited 25×
• Cole v. Wiggins
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-04-09· cited 25×
• Bush v. Mullen
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1985-11-06· cited 19×
• Langford v. Mercurio
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1966-02-14· cited 18×
• Graves v. MASSEY
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1956-05-07· cited 18×
• Modling v. Bailey Homes and Ins.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-06-04· cited 11×