McCormick v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Eaton v. McLain (1994), Doe v. Linder Const. Co., Inc. (1992)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 22 Tenn. App. 70 - Gargaro v. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. · Ill. Cent. R. Co. v. Nichols · Paradiso v. Kroger Company · Stringer v. Cooper · O'Brien v. Smith Bros. Engine Rebuilders, 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.
“This duty of the owner or occupier of the land arises from the position of control which this person in possession occupies; he is the person normally best able to prevent any harm to others. See Paradiso [v. Kroger Co., 499 S.W.2d 78 (Tenn.App.1973) ], supra. This same position of superior knowledge and control gives rise to the requirement that the possessor of land exercise ordinary or reasonable care to provide a reasonably safe place for the performance of work by employees. Stringer v. Cooper and Cooper Office Equipment, Inc., 486 S.W.2d 751 (Tenn.App.1972).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen an invitee is injured because of dangers that are obvious, reasonably apparent, or as well known to the injured party as to the owner or operator of the premises, liability, if any should be determined in accordance with the principles of comparative fault analysis and the general negligence law of this state.”
2 later decisions 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.