Schumacher v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Zueck v. Oppenheimer Gateway Properties, Inc. · Harris v. Niehaus · Halmick v. SBC Corporate Services, Inc. · Singleton v. Charlebois Construction Co. · Lawrence v. Bainbridge Apartments
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 12 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.”
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.