Landers v. Aldi, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.3d 698 · 1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Salve Regina College v. Russell · Harris v. Niehaus · Heacox v. Robbins Educational Tours, Inc. · Demko v. H&H INVESTMENT COMPANY
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because Landers acknowledges that she had seen the stones around the parking lot on previous visits to the strip mall ... she admits that the stones posed an open and obvious danger, and that she herself knew of the risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ljoose stones in a parking lot pose only a minimal danger to the general public....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.