143 Pa. Super. 87 - Christman v. Segal’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1976
13 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 Dively v. Penn-Pittsburgh Corp. · Vetter v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. · Kulka v. Nemirovsky · Bloomer v. Snellenburg · Hudson v. Church of the Holy Trinity
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In seeking toilet facilities plaintiff was still an invitee and defendant continued to owe her the duty of reasonable care. It is commonly known that lavatory ' and toilet facilities are available - in department stores generally, for the accomodation of patrons, and one using them does not surrender his status as an invitee, for ordinarily, such facilities are as much a part of the premises to which patrons are invited as a floor devoted to the display and sale, of merchandise. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In seeking toilet facilities plaintiff was still an invitee [business visitor] and defendant continued to owe her the duty of reasonable care. .... She was not informed, if it be the fact as defendant testified, that the toilet room in this store was maintained for the accommodation of employees only and not for patrons of the store. But even if the use was permissive merely, that fact did not affect plaintiff’s status as an invitee [business visitor].””
1 later decision 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.