LaCourse v. Fleitz’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 49 Ohio App. 3d 46 - Baldauf v. Kent State University (1988), 63 Ohio App. 3d 590 - Mid-America Acceptance Co. v. Lightle (1989)
117 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 Sidle v. Humphrey · Anderson v. Ceccardi · Shroades v. Rental Homes, Inc. · Debie v. Cochran Pharmacy-Berwick, Inc. · Jeswald v. Hutt
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“invitee may not reasonably be expected to protect himself from a risk he cannot fully appreciate.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[k]eep all common areas of the premises in a safe and sanitary condition.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“an owner of property is not liable for injuries to business invitees who slip and fall on natural accumulations of ice and snow.”
3 later decisions 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.