Kimple v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Gould v. Taco Bell (1986), 14 Cal. 4th 814 - Kentucky Fried Chicken of California, Inc. v. Superior Court (1997)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 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 State v. Turner · Coca v. Arceo · Priewe v. Bartz · 14 N.J. Super. 420 - Reilly v. 180 Club, Inc. · Stevenson v. City of Kansas City
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A proprietor of an inn, tavern, restaurant or like business is liable for an assault upon a guest or patron by another guest or third party where the proprietor has reason to anticipate such an assault andfails to exercise reasonable care to forestall or prevent the same.” Syl. ¶ 2. “The duty of a proprietor of a tavern or inn to protect his patrons from injury does not arise until the impending danger becomes apparent to him, or the circumstances are such that a careful and prudent person would be put on notice of the potential danger.” Syl. ¶ 3.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not require a long and continued course of conduct to find that the proprietor had knowledge of the violent disposition of the other patron — all that is necessary is that there be a sequence of conduct sufficiently long to enable the proprietor to act for the patron’s safety. It is not necessary that the proprietor know of a history of a series of offenses against the peace.”
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.