Watts v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Debie v. Cochran Pharmacy-Berwick, Inc. (1967), Honolulu Ltd. v. Cain (1966)
26 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 Crawford v. Soennichsen · 39 Ill. App. 2d 217 - Zide v. Jewel Tea Co. · Dudley v. Montgomery Ward & Co. · 76 Ohio App. 83 - Turoff v. Richman · McElroy v. United Air Lines, Inc.
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.
“[A] proprietor is not considered negligent for allowing the natural accumulation of ice due to weather conditions where he has not created the condition. The conditions created by the elements, such as the forming of ice and falling of snow, are universally known and there is no liability where the danger is obvious or is as well known to the plaintiff as the property owner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Dangers .created by the elements such as the forming of ice and. the falling of snow are universally known and the cases seem generally to hold there is .no liability where the danger is obvious or is as well known to the plaintiff as to the property owner.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the pleadings is assigned the task of general notice giving; the task of narrowing and clarifying the basic issues, ascertaining the facts relative to those issues, is the role of deposition-discovery process aided by the pretrial hearing. In other words, a pleading should give notice of what an adverse party may expect, and issues should be formulated through deposition-discovery processes and pretrial hearings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bb v. Rsr
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.