Wright v. Mt. Mansfield Lift, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• \we rely upon the principles of [ Wright ] as the basis for the conclusion reached here\
• one who takes part in sport \accepts the dangers that inhere in it so far as they are obvious and necessary\
• “we rely upon the principles of [Wright] as the basis for the conclusion reached here”
• one who takes part in sport “accepts the dangers that inhere in it so far as they are obvious and necessary”
• one who participates in activity of skiing held to accept inherent dangers insofar as they are obvious and necessary
• “Whenever one makes such use 1 of another’s premises as the owner intends he shall, or such as he is reasonably justified 2 in understanding that the owner intended, this is an implied invitation to enter onto the 3 land of another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clover v. Snowbird Ski Resort
  Utah Supreme Court· 1991-03-01· cited 127×
• Brett v. Great American Recreation, Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1996-06-13· cited 110×
• Sunday v. Stratton Corp.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1978-06-06· cited 78×
• Marshall v. Town of Brattleboro
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1960-03-02· cited 40×
• David J. Dillworth Dorothy Dillworth v. Andrew Gambardella
  Second Circuit· 1992-07-27· cited 27×
• O'DONOGHUE v. Bear Mountain Ski Resort
  California Court of Appeal· 1994-11-03· cited 27×
• Bouchard v. Johnson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-10-24· cited 23×
• Rutherford v. Talisker Canyons Fin., Co.
  Utah Supreme Court· 2019-06-27· cited 23×
• Estate of Frant v. Haystack Group, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1994-02-28· cited 22×
• McDaniel v. Dowell
  California Court of Appeal· 1962-11-21· cited 21×
• Suzanne Matheny v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-12-04· cited 19×
• Lopez v. Ski Apache Resort
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1992-04-24· cited 19×
• Leopold v. Okemo Mountain, Inc.
  D. Vermont· 1976-09-17· cited 17×
• Campbell v. Derylo
  California Court of Appeal· 1999-10-14· cited 17×
• Oberson v. United States
  D. Montana· 2004-01-23· cited 17×
• Kopeikin v. Moonlight Basin Management, LLC
  D. Montana· 2013-11-07· cited 12×
• Hiibschman Ex Rel. Welch v. City of Valdez
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1991-12-06· cited 11×
• Nelson v. Snowridge, Inc.
  D. Vermont· 1993-04-01· cited 10×
• Covel v. Mt. Mansfield Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1997-03-13· cited 7×
• Dillworth v. Gambardella
  D. Vermont· 1991-09-25· cited 6×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Slattery v. Marra Bros., Inc. Marra Bros., Inc. v. Wm. Spencer & Son Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1951-01-04· cited 137×
• Clark v. State
  New York State Court of Claims· 1949-05-06· cited 12×