Brown Hotel v. Levitt’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably Pike v. George (1968), Hinton v. Dixie Ohio Exp. Co. (1951)
12 federal appellate · 15 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 Pryor's Administrator v. Otter · DeHaen v. Rockwood Sprinkler Co. of Massachusetts · Newton v. Wetherby's Adm'x · Phoenix Amusement Co. v. Padgett's Adm'x
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is argued by appellant that the purpose of the ordinance was limited to the protection of persons in going from the building in case of fire. We cannot agree with appellant in this argument. Obviously the purpose of the ordinance was for the safety of persons using the steps either in ingress or egress. “But we can agree with appellant in that the particular thing that happened here was most likely not within the zone of apprehension of the ordinance. If the violation of an ordinance calling for a prescribed safeguard does not necessarily establish liability, it will be much more so if the ordinance is intended only to protect against hazards entirely different in kind to the occasion of the injury. It follows then that where a statutory command is not obeyed there is no breach of duty toward those who do not come within the zone of apprehended danger.” (Emphasis added.) 209 S.W.2d at 71, 72 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Liability is not established by a showing that, as chance would have it, a statutory safeguard might have avoided the particular hazard out of which an accident ensued. The hazard out of which the accident ensued must have been the particular hazard or class of hazards that the statutory safeguard, in the thought and purpose of the Legislature, was intended to correct.””
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.