Ford v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2021
9 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 Bain v. Fort Smith Light & Traction Co. · Louisville Trust Co. v. Morgan · West v. Spratling · Pankey v. Little Rock Railway & Electric Co. · Nichols v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Inasmuch as the owners and the lessee of the hotel were not insurers of the safety of their guests, liability must be determined by the answer to the question “Did they furnish the facilities for the safety of their guests which ordinary care required and reasonable prudence would have suggested?” If they did they were not negligent, although it may now appear that some “suitable and workable method” might have been employed which was not employed.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A violator of this statute is subject to a fine, but the statute does not undertake to impose civil liability, although its violation is evidence of negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sander v. Kristof
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.