Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
273 F.2d 295 · 1960
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1990 · most notably Anderson v. United States (1974), United States v. Sidney Levine and Mpd Film Productions, Inc. (1977)
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Standard Oil Company of California v. Moore · Houston Oxygen Co. v. Davis · Carter Products, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · 9 Wash. 2d 93 - Moen v. Chestnut
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.
““Mrs. Louella Combs was shopping in a Safeway Store in El Paso, Texas, when she stepped into a puddle of ketchup that had spilled on the floor from a broken bottle. Mr. and Mrs. Combs sued Safeway Stores, Inc., alleging that the defendant was negligent in creating a hazardous condition ; in failing to remove the ketchup or in failing to isolate the hazardous condition by placing a barrier around the ketchup; in failing to warn Mrs. Combs of the presence of £he ketchup; and in allowing the ketchup to remain on the floor in the immediate vicinity of an eye-catching advertising display that would divert one’s attention from the ketchup puddle. Safeway Stores relies upon Mrs. Combs’ alleged failure to keep a proper lookout, failure to heed an alleged warning, and on the contention that the hazard, such as it was, was open and obvious.””
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.