Gottschalk v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2000
1 federal appellate · 10 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 221 So. 2d 777 - Warner v. Florida Jai Alai, Inc. · 140 So. 2d 59 - Elmore v. Sones · 211 So. 2d 37 - Reynolds v. Deep South Sports, Inc. · 123 So. 2d 472 - Wometco Theatres Corporation v. Rath
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is clear that in order for the proprietor of a public place to be held liable for a breach of a duty to a customer he must have either actual or constructive knowledge of the particular risk involved and/or a reasonable opportunity to protect him from that risk.”
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.