148 Ohio App. 3d 403 - Mowery v. Shoaf’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Dresher v. Burt · Temple v. Wean United, Inc. · Mitseff v. Wheeler · Menifee v. Ohio Welding Products, 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Darkness is always a warning of danger, and for one's own protection, it may not be disregarded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“This duty applies to everything that threatens the invitee with an unreasonable risk of harm, including latent dangers that are reasonably ascertainable. The landowner must not only use care to warn of latent dangers of which he is aware but must also inspect the premises for possible unknown dangerous conditions and protect the invitee from foreseeable dangers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[d]arkness itself constitutes a sign of danger, and the person who disregards a dark condition does so at his or her own peril.”
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.