411 Pa. Super. 371 - Harmotta v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Turner v. Roman Catholic Diocese (2009), Reich v. Cominco Alaska, Inc. (2002)
38 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co. · Paulussen v. Herion · Martinez-Villareal v. Arizona · City of Hazleton v. City Council
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he doctrine of hills and ridges provides that an owner or occupier of land is not hable for general slippery conditions, for to require that one’s walks be always free of ice and snow would be to impose an impossible burden in view of the climatic conditions in this hemisphere. Snow and ice upon a pavement create merely transient danger, and the only duty upon the property owner or tenant is to act within a reasonable time after notice to remove it when it is in a dangerous condition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) that snow and ice had accumulated on the sidewalk in ridges or elevations of such size and character as to unreasonably obstruct travel and constitute a danger to pedestrians travelling thereon; (2) that the property 'owner had notice, either actual or constructive, of the existence of such a condition; and (3) that it was the dangerous accumulation of snow and ice which caused the plaintiff to fall.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The challenged venirepersons who became members of the jury were not members of the Immaculate Conception Church of Vintondale with a direct financial interest in the outcome of the litigation, but merely members of the Altoona-Johnstown diocese with a remote interest.”
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.