561 So. 2d 1112 - Mann v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2011
5 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 Southern Ry. Co. v. Dickson · Griffin Lumber Co. v. Harper · Folmar v. Montgomery Fair Company, Inc. · Lamson & Sessions Bolt Co. v. McCarty · Quillen v. Quillen
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Bishop was a business invitee on South's premises at the time of her accident. Because she was a business invitee, South owed her a duty to exercise reasonable care in maintaining her premises in a reasonably safe condition. Mann v. Smith , 561 So.2d 1112 , 1113 (Ala. 1990); Collier v. Necaise , 522 So.2d 275 (Ala. 1988); Quillen v. Quillen , 388 So.2d 985 , 989 (Ala. 1980). However,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he top step was not level with the door jamb, but was slightly below the jamb so that someone entering the store had to step from the top step up to enter the store.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“established evidence from which a jury could find that a defect existed in the steps.”
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.