75 Wash. 2d 393 - Morton v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2018
14 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 Wollerman v. Grand Union Stores, Inc. · Louie v. Hagstrom's Food Stores, Inc. · Deagle v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. · Strack v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. · 60 Wash. 2d 671 - Presnell v. Safeway Stores, 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily, it is a question of fact for the jury, whether under all of the circumstances, a defective condition existed long enough so that it would have been discovered by an owner exercising reasonable care. Presnell v. Safeway Stores, Inc., 60 Wash.2d 671 , 374 P.2d 939 (1962). The permissible period of time for the discovery and removal or warning of the dangerous condition is measured by the varying circumstances of each case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The owner of a department store, such as the defendant in this case, owes to a person who has an express or implied invitation to come upon the premises in connection with that business, a duty to exercise ordinary care for that person's safety. In order to support a finding of negligence, a temporary unsafe condition on the premises must either have been brought to the actual attention of the defendant or its employees, or it must have existed for a sufficient length of time and under such circumstances that the defendant or its employees should have discovered it in the exercise of ordinary care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to pick up any litter or debris whenever they saw it”
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.