{
  "id": 1907846,
  "name": "Margaret ALEXANDER v. TOWN AND COUNTRY DISCOUNT FOODS, INC.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Alexander v. Town and Country Discount Foods, Inc.",
  "decision_date": "1994-03-28",
  "docket_number": "93-1181",
  "first_page": "446",
  "last_page": "447",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "316 Ark. 446"
    },
    {
      "type": "parallel",
      "cite": "872 S.W.2d 390"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ark.",
    "id": 8808,
    "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 34,
    "name_long": "Arkansas",
    "name": "Ark."
  },
  "cites_to": [
    {
      "cite": "238 Ark. 709",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ark.",
      "case_ids": [
        1734265
      ],
      "weight": 2,
      "year": 1964,
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ark/238/0709-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "252 Ark. 191",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ark.",
      "case_ids": [
        1629919
      ],
      "weight": 2,
      "year": 1972,
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ark/252/0191-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "289 Ark. 14",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ark.",
      "case_ids": [
        1875345
      ],
      "weight": 2,
      "year": 1986,
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ark/289/0014-01"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cite": "314 Ark. 14",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ark.",
      "case_ids": [
        1912775
      ],
      "weight": 2,
      "year": 1993,
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ark/314/0014-01"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 154,
    "char_count": 1514,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.887,
    "pagerank": {
      "raw": 4.719567370958748e-08,
      "percentile": 0.29594679072023117
    },
    "sha256": "831a9ca0faf2d9a76c998860470854e575c957959355186455f81993cc7940ad",
    "simhash": "1:e1485e716723858a",
    "word_count": 258
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T14:45:44.703271+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Margaret ALEXANDER v. TOWN AND COUNTRY DISCOUNT FOODS, INC."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Robert H. Dudley, Justice.\nThe plaintiff tripped and fell over a mat as she was entering defendant\u2019s store. The trial court granted a summary judgment in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff appeals and states:\nThe fact that res ipsa loquitur may not have been applied to slip and fall cases in the past should not preclude this court from now reversing, changing or perhaps modifying previous Arkansas law and holding that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur from this point forward will apply in slip and fall cases.\nThe court of appeals certified the case to this court. We affirm the summary judgment.\nWe have often held that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is not applicable to slip and fall cases. Mankey v. WalMart Stores, Inc., 314 Ark. 14, 858 S.W.2d 85 (1993); Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Willmon, 289 Ark. 14, 708 S.W.2d 623 (1986); Haggans v. Jonesboro Cable TV, Inc., 252 Ark. 191, 477 S.W.2d 840 (1972); Miller v. F.W. Woolworth Co., 238 Ark. 709, 384 S.W.2d 947 (1964). The reason the doctrine is not applicable to slip and fall cases is that the sole cause of the injury is not necessarily a negligent act by the defendant. There are possibilities of negligence by third parties as well as the plaintiff.\nAffirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Robert H. Dudley, Justice."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Carney & Cooper, Law Firm, P.A., by: Mark F. Cooper, for appellant.",
      "Snellgrove, Laser, Lanaley & Lovett, by: P. Sanders Huckabee, for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Margaret ALEXANDER v. TOWN AND COUNTRY DISCOUNT FOODS, INC.\n93-1181\n872 S.W.2d 390\nSupreme Court of Arkansas\nOpinion delivered March 28, 1994\nCarney & Cooper, Law Firm, P.A., by: Mark F. Cooper, for appellant.\nSnellgrove, Laser, Lanaley & Lovett, by: P. Sanders Huckabee, for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0446-01",
  "first_page_order": 480,
  "last_page_order": 481
}