Roland v. Langlois’s Empirical Analysis
945 F.2d 956 · 1991
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Halpin v. Ww Grainger Incorporated (1992), Hager v. City of West Peoria (1996)
31 federal appellate · 3 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 · 136 Ill. 2d 132 - Ward v. K Mart Corp. · DeBruyne v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States · Orthmann v. Apple River Campground, Inc. · Fort Howard Paper Company v. Standard Havens 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n appellate court may affirm on any ground that finds support in the record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable care under the circumstances regarding the state of the premises or acts done or omitted on them.”
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.