Self v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.2d 336 · 1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2014
8 federal appellate · 1 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · 54 Tenn. App. 359 - Allison v. Blount National Bank · Jones v. Zayre, Inc. · Benson v. H.G. Hill 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the deposition testimony of the plaintiff and his wife showed conclusively that they had no way of telling how much time had elapsed between the point at which the dog food was spilled and the point at which Mr. Self lost his footing on it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the accumulation of foreign substances was shown to have been a common occurrence, as opposed to being something that was ... 'transitory, temporary or unusual.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“have trended against these slip-and-fall cases and require more of a plaintiff now than they used to.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.