Cannon v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Roll 'R' Way Rinks, Inc. v. Smith (1977), Hite v. Maritime Overseas Corporation (1974)
12 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 Bradshaw v. Minter · Miracle Mart, Inc. v. Webb · Thalhimer Bros. Inc. v. Buckner · Culpepper v. Neff · State-Planters Bank & Trust Co. v. Gans
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to hold the owner of property liable for injuries sustained by an invitee due to the unsafe condition of the premises, it must be shown that the owner had knowledge of the alleged unsafe condition, or that it had existed for such a length of time as to make it the owner’s duty in the exercise of ordinary care to have discovered it.”
2 later decisions 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.