48 So. 2d 521 - Miller v. Shull’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Lincoln Operating Co. v. Gillis (1953), 61 So. 2d 477 - Earley v. Morrison Cafeteria Co. of Orlando (1952)
4 federal appellate · 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 Matson v. Tip Top Grocery Company, Inc. · 15 Cal. 2d 622 - Dingman v. AF Mattock Company · Tutwiler v. I. Beverally Nalle, 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * Plaintiff must have known, since it is a matter of common knowledge and one which most of us know through painful experience that a small amount of water in the bottom of a bath tub creates a slippery condition; and we think we may safely say that any reasonably prudent person makes at least a cursory examination of the condition of a bath tub before stepping into it. * * * "From the allegations of the declaration in this case, it appears that the plaintiff's injuries were the result of her own failure to exercise ordinary care, and under such circumstances the question of negligence was properly decided by the court as a matter of law."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“use ordinary care to keep [its] premises in a reasonably safe condition so that [its] guests may use them in the ordinary and reasonable way without danger.”
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.