Leonard v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Jacques v. First National Bank (1986), State Ex Rel. Parr v. Board of County Commissioners (1955)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 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 Holler v. Lowery · Flynn v. Canton Co. · City of Newport v. Schmit · East Coast Freight Lines, Inc. v. Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. · Schuler v. City of Mobridge
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to the owner of the property, it seems to be well settled that the abutting owner is not liable to pedestrians for injuries resulting from his failure to keep in repair a public sidewalk which he had not constructed. (Citing cases.) Nor is he liable for a failure to keep the walk clear, even where a statute or ordinance requires that the pavement be kept free of snow and ice. The duty is owed to the authorities and not to the private individual who happens to slip.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The duty owed by a municipal corporation to those lawfully using the sidewalks under its control is not that of an insurer of their safe passage. Where there are dangerous obstructions or depressions of which the municipal authorities have actual notice or which hafue existed long enough to give constructive notice, a municipality is liable if a person is. injured because of such condition.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the facts in each case, the court should determine whether there is sufficient evidence of the gravity of the alleged defects to permit a jury to consider the question of negligence.”
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.