Kroger Co. v. Elwood

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that breach of duty must be established to recover for negligence
• stating that employer “owes 25 no duty to warn of hazards that are commonly known or already appreciated by the employee”
• “To establish negligence, a party must establish . . . damages proximately caused by the breach.”
• “To establish negligence, a party must establish a duty, a breach of that duty, and damages proximately caused by the breach.”
• grocery store employer had no duty to warn courtesy clerk of danger associated with placing hand in doorjamb of automobile because that danger is common and obvious to anyone

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

181 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Randy Austin v. Kroger Texas, L.P.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-06-15· cited 290×
• Nabors Drilling, U.S.A., Inc. v. Escoto
  Texas Supreme Court· 2009-06-19· cited 225×
• General Electric Co. v. Moritz
  Texas Supreme Court· 2008-06-13· cited 178×
• Randy Austin v. Kroger Texas, L.P.
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-03-21· cited 94×
• Paragon General Contractors, Inc. v. Larco Construction Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2007-06-26· cited 87×
• LMC Complete Automotive, Inc. v. Burke
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-06-21· cited 67×
• Aleman v. Ben E. Keith Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-04-05· cited 59×
• Trousdale v. Henry
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-06-24· cited 54×
• Cleveland Regional Medical Center, L.P. v. Celtic Properties, L.C.
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2010-09-30· cited 50×
• Barton v. Whataburger, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-02-13· cited 42×
• Ostrovitz & Gwinn, LLC v. First Specialty Insurance Company
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2012-12-13· cited 40×
• In re Butt
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-05-09· cited 39×
• Ray v. American Airlines, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 2010-07-02· cited 38×
• Jack in the Box, Inc. v. Skiles
  Texas Supreme Court· 2007-02-09· cited 38×
• Brookshire Grocery Co. v. Goss
  Texas Supreme Court· 2008-08-29· cited 34×
• Moss v. WASTE MANAGEMENT OF TEXAS, INC.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-10-13· cited 33×
• Eckhardt v. Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-05-13· cited 30×
• E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company v. Robert Earl Roye and Diane Roye
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-08-12· cited 30×
• Vasquez v. Legend Natural Gas III, LP
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-04-29· cited 29×
• Elite Door & Trim, Inc. v. Tapia
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2011-08-16· cited 28×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Leitch v. Hornsby
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-12-13· cited 889×
• El Chico Corp. v. Poole
  Texas Supreme Court· 1987-06-03· cited 844×
• Farley v. MM Cattle Company
  Texas Supreme Court· 1975-07-09· cited 407×
• Kroger Co. v. Keng
  Texas Supreme Court· 2000-08-24· cited 289×
• Exxon Corp. v. Tidwell
  Texas Supreme Court· 1993-12-08· cited 288×
• Werner v. Colwell
  Texas Supreme Court· 1995-10-05· cited 240×
• Van Horn v. Chambers
  Texas Supreme Court· 1998-07-03· cited 233×
• National Convenience Stores Inc. v. Matherne
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1999-03-04· cited 57×
• Allsup's Convenience Stores, Inc. v. Warren
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1996-12-20· cited 42×