Knight v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Acme Markets., Inc. v. Remschel (1943), Fultz v. Delhaize America, Inc. (2009)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 61 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 Richmond & Manchester Railway Co. v. Moore's Adm'r · Eastern Shore of Virginia Agricultural Ass'n v. LeCato · City of Radford v. Calhoun · Williamson v. Wellman · Turner v. Carneal
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must give notice or warning of an unsafe condition which is known to him and is unknown to the invitee, such notice is not required where the dangerous condition is open and obvious, and is patent to a reasonable person exercising ordinary care for his own safety.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While it is true that the plaintiff was not required to look constantly at the floor, she was not relieved of the duty to exercise ordinary care for her own safety and she cannot walk blindly into a dangerous condition which is open and obvious to a person in the exercise of ordinary care and then claim to be blameless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unless the evidence is without conflict, or unless fair-minded men cannot differ on the inferences to be drawn from it, the questions as to whether the owner of the premises has exercised the required care towards his invitee, and whether the latter has been guilty of contributory negligence, are matters for the jury.”
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.