Mozert v. Noeding’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably McGeehan v. Bunch (1975), Lujan v. Gonzales (1972)
3 federal appellate · 78 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 Barakos v. Sponduris · Crenshaw v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Company · Boyce v. Brewington · Sandoval v. Brown · Romero v. Shelton
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) knows or by the exercise of reasonable care would discover the condition, and should realize that it involves an unreasonable risk of harm to such invitees, and “(b) should expect that they will not discover or realize the danger, or will fail to protect themselves against it, and “(c) fails to exercise reasonable care to protect them against the danger.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Ordinarily, the question of contributory negligence is a fact question to be determined by the jury. * * * The question of contributory negligence is properly taken from the jury only when reasonable minds cannot differ on the question and readily reach the conclusion that plaintiff’s conduct falls below the standard to which he should have conformed for his own protection, and that this negligent conduct on his part proximately contributed with the negligence of the defendant in causing the injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 330. Licensee Defined A licensee is a person who is privileged to enter or remain on land only by virtue of the possessor’s consent. § 332. Invitee Defined (1) An invitee is either a public invitee or a business visitor. (2) A public invitee is a person who is invited to enter or remain on land as a member of the public for a purpose for which the land is held open to the public. (3)' A business visitor is a person who is invited to enter or remain on land for a purpose directly or indirectly connected with business dealings with the possessor of the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aitken v. Starr
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.