148 N.C. App. 168 - Dowless v. Kroger Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roumillat v. Simplistic Enterprises, Inc. · Norwood v. Sherwin-Williams Co. · Walker v. County of Randolph · Branks v. Kern · Pulley v. Rex Hospital
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he question is not whether a reasonably prudent person would have seen the [hazard] had he or she looked but whether a person using ordinary care for his or her own safety under similar circumstances would have looked down at the floor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“her view of the ground was obstructed by the merchandise in her shopping cart, and [ ] her attention was focused on the heavy traffic in the parking lot in order to ensure that she would reach her car safely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a plaintiff may not recover in a negligence action where the hazard in question should have been obvious to a person using reasonable care under the circumstances.”
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.