Rogers v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1975
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Houston National Bank v. Adair · Russell v. Liggett Drug Co. · Southwestern Hotel Co. v. Rogers · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Gaston · Tinker v. Yellow Cab Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) In failing to remove the slippery substance from the floor. (b) In failing to close the check-out aisle where such slippery substance existed on the floor. (c) In failing to give warning to the Plaintiff, Stella Marie Dillingham, of the existence of such slippery substance on the floor. (d) In failing to post a warning of the slippery and dangerous condition. (e) In failing to place any cover over the area where the slippery substance existed. (f) In failing to provide skid-resistant type flooring or floor covering in the check-out aisle. (g) In failing to provide hand rails or other supports, to prevent persons from falling in such area, or to enable persons to break the force of such a fall. (h) In failing to post warnings of possible dangerous conditions, in the check-out aisle areas. (i) In failing to maintain the floor against slippery conditions, or so as to prevent such dangerous conditions. (j) In failing to take steps to remedy the slippery condition of the floor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.