Hudson v. Gaitan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the numerous exceptions and subclassifications engrafted into the trichotomy have created a “complex patchwork of legal classifications which are by no means uniformly interpreted in the various jurisdictions”
• holding that a premises owner or possessor owes to the social guest the same duty as that owed to an invitee
• rejecting the common law classifications of invitee and licensee and adopting a duty of reasonable care as to these individuals
• foreseeability of the presence of the visitor and the likelihood of harm to him or her are factors in assessing liability
• foreseeability of the presence of the visitor and the likelihood of harm to him or her are factors in assessing liability
• abolishing distinctions based on entrant status

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).