Barsz v. Max Shapiro, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Meek v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2002), Perkins v. Lawson (2002)
5 federal appellate · 19 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 United States v. Owens · Troxler Hosiery Co. v. United States · Burrell v. Meads · Havert v. Caldwell · Rediehs Express, Inc. v. Maple
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a finding of negligence would not require inferential speculation,, because Mrs. Barsz's testimony, if believed, establishes the presence of a foreign object on the floor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“although Mrs. Barsz did not specifically identify the object or defect that caused her fall, she did testify that she slipped on 'something'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not hold [a storeowner] strictly liable for a fall occurring before [it] even had a chance to remove the foreign substance from the floor.”
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.