Keetch v. Kroger Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 203 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 233 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Torrington Co. v. Stutzman (2001), Moore v. K Mart Corp. (1998)
12 federal appellate · 203 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas))
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. Packer · State Department of Highways & Public Transportation v. Payne · Houston National Bank v. Adair · Redinger v. Living, Inc. · Corbin 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 233 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Actual or constructive knowledge of some condition on the premises by the owner/operator; (2) That the condition posed an unreasonable risk of harm; (3) That the owner/operator did not exercise reasonable care to reduce or eliminate the risk; and (4) That the owner/operator’s failure to use such care proximately caused the plaintiffs injuries.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage““Negligence,” when used with respect to the conduct of First Office Management, a Division of Equity Property Management Corp. and Zell/Merrill Lynch Real Estate Opportunity Partners Limited Partnership, an Illinois Limited Partnership, means failure to use a high degree of care, that is, failing to do that which a very cautious, competent, and prudent person would have done under the same or similar circumstances or doing that which a very cautious, competent, and prudent person would not have done under the same or similar circumstances. “High degree of care” means that degree of care that would have been used by a very cautious, competent, and prudent person under the same or similar circumstances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Recovery on a negligent activity theory requires that the person have been injured by or as a contemporaneous result of the activity itself rather than by a condition created by the activity.” Negligence in the former context means simply doing or failing to do what a person of ordinary prudence in the same or similar circumstances would have not done or done. Negligence in the latter context means “failure to use ordinary care to reduce or eliminate an unreasonable risk of harm created by a premises condition which the owner or occupier [of land] knows about or in the exercise of ordinary care should know about.””
4 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.