115 Ohio App. 3d 155 - Backus v. Giant Eagle, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 160 Ohio App. 3d 702 - Nageotte v. Cafaro Co. (2005), 155 Ohio App. 3d 589 - Zuzan v. Shutrump (2003)
49 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Sidle v. Humphrey · Cash v. City of Cincinnati · Helms v. James Dickey Post No. 23, American Legion, Inc.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attendant circumstance is a factor that contributes to the fall and is beyond the control of the injured party.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he law regarding defects in sidewalks and related issues arising therefrom is well-established. Landowners are not liable as a matter of law for minor defects in sidewalks and other walkways because these are commonly encountered and pedestrians should expect such variations in the walkways. A pedestrian No. 22AP-77 9 has a duty to look for and avoid known and obvious cracks in the walkway surface.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is a paramount duty upon a pedestrian to look where he may be walking.”
2 later decisions 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.