543 So. 2d 552 - Jackson v. Quick’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “Plaintiff's evidence at best establishes that pedestrian crosswalks and appropriate warning signs could make the parking lot safer for pedestrians. The evidence does not establish that the parking lot without crosswalks or warning signs was unreasonably dangerous.... The obvious safety advantages of crosswalks and warning signs, however, do not establish that any parking lot without them is unreasonably dangerous. The record in this case, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to plaintiff, does not establish that when plaintiff walked from the clubhouse to his car he was confronted with an unreasonably dangerous situation by virtue of the condition of the parking lot. On the evidence in this record no reasonable juror could arrive at a contrary conclusion. Plaintiff's case also suffers from a failure to establish legal causation with regard to the condition of the Fair Grounds parking lot. Plaintiff needed to prove that the condition of the parking lot caused the accident; or, from plaintiff's case perspective, that the accident was caused, at least in part, by the absence of pedestrian crosswalks with warning signs.... The absence of a crosswalk and warning sign played absolutely no part in causing this accident.... That a crosswalk with warning signs might have caused the "phantom auto" to stop, permitting plaintiff to fully cross the travel lanes before [the arrival of the vehicle that hit plaintiff] is speculative at best....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Adams v. Travelers Ins. Co.