Patrick v. MacOn Housing Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that inspection of a laundry room every two hours was reasonable as a matter of law because there were no prior complaints regarding slippery or wet floors
• holding that because, in contrast to typical cases in supermarkets or restaurants, defendant had no reason to believe conditions in laundry room of apartment complex were unusually dangerous, it had no duty to inspect the floors there more than every two hours
• inspection of laundry room every two hours was reasonable as a matter of law, since there had been no prior complaints about spilled water or slippery floors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Food Lion, LLC v. Walker
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-26· cited 24×
• Gibson v. Halpern Enterprises
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-11-26· cited 16×
• Pirkle v. Quiktrip Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-01-24· cited 13×
• Crook v. RaceTrac Petroleum, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-07-29· cited 10×
• BASHLOR v. Walker
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-23· cited 9×
• Grossman v. Brown & Webb Builders, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-19· cited 8×
• Quarles v. Georgia Service Systems, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-10-07· cited 5×
• Todd Riggs v. Highland Hills Apartments, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-26· cited 1×
• River Place at Port Royal Condominium Association, Inc v. Shelisa Sapp
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-16
• Margie Pollard v. Greg Deloach
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-06-18
• Carlos Ross Pirkle v. Quiktrip Corporation
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-01-24

Cites

44 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-06-27· cited 2,024×
• Robinson v. Kroger Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 568×
• Alterman Foods, Inc. v. Ligon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-05· cited 437×
• Gibbons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-03· cited 353×
• McCarty v. National Life & Accident Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1962-12-03· cited 213×
• Eiberger v. West
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-07-07· cited 94×
• Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. v. Hardy
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-04-06· cited 66×
• Boatright v. Rich's, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-02-05· cited 65×
• Days Inns of America, Inc. v. Matt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-03-13· cited 63×
• Straughter v. J. H. Harvey Company, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-20· cited 52×
• J. H. Harvey Co. v. Reddick
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-10-21· cited 52×
• Shepard v. Winn Dixie Stores, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-12-07· cited 45×
• Banks v. Colonial Stores, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1968-04-02· cited 38×
• Jackson v. Waffle House, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-12· cited 30×
• Pafford v. Biomet
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-09-19· cited 30×
• Kroger Co. v. Brooks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-26· cited 26×
• Freyer v. Silver
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 26×
• Butler v. Huckabee
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-07-16· cited 25×
• Mitchell v. Rainey
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-06-13· cited 25×
• Quiktrip Corp. v. Childs
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-03-06· cited 23×