George v. Ayesh’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Blackmore v. Auer (1960), Little v. Butner (1960)
2 district · 28 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 Ray v. Allen · Henks v. Panning · Thogmartin v. Koppel · Buck v. Miller Amusement Co. · Harral v. Kent Corp.
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.
“"... The trouble, from plaintiff's standpoint, is that the evidence here simply does not establish any such hidden dangerous defect as was present in the last-mentioned cases. "In fact, as we read this record, there is a total lack of negligence on the part of defendant and no showing of a violation of any duty. The responsibility of a merchant or storekeeper varies according to the circumstances. The mere fact that an invitee slips or falls in a place of business does not necessarily render the owner or proprietor liable in damages. As a practical matter, it seems utterly unreasonable to say that the operator of a liquor store who allows a cardboard filler to remain on the floor of his storeroom in plain view of anyone who takes the trouble to observe, is guilty of negligence for so doing." (pp. 326, 327.) (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weaver v. Laundon
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.