Quinlan v. Cecchini

This is the first case of an injured social guest to reach us since we abandoned resort to common-law classifications as the conclusive determinant of a land occupier’s duty to entrants on property based on whether they were to be regarded as licensees, invitees, trespassers or members of any of their patchwork of subclassifications, adopting in its place a "single standard” under which liability is to be measured by what is "reasonable care under the circumstances” (Basso v Miller, 40 NY2d 233, 241; Scurti v City of New York, 40 NY2d 433, 437).

Plaintiff Loretta Quinlan, then a 17-year-old…