16 Ariz. App. 54 - Pierce v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably Ontiveros v. Borak (1983), McFarlin v. Hall (1980)
30 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 5 Cal. 3d 153 - Vesely v. Sager · Rappaport v. Nichols · Leyvas v. United States · Jardine v. Upper Darby Lodge No. 1973 · Adamian v. Three Sons, 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[0]ne who operates a bar where the public is invited while not an insurer of the safety of his patrons, owes the duty to his patrons to exercise reasonable care and vigilance to protect them from reasonably foreseeable injury, mistreatment or annoyance at the hands of other patrons.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The test of whether the duty of reasonable care is discharged is the probability of injury 'to the plaintiff.” Our state Supreme Court disapproved of a prior version of this sentence which used the words”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is common knowledge that consumption of intoxicating liquors may excite emotions leading to violent disturbances the development of which a tavern keeper should be reasonably alert to detect and suppress. ... We do not, however, find this to mean that a tavern keeper must possess extraordinary powers of foreseeability greater than a reasonable person in similar 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.