Olson v. Richard’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Shuette v. Beazer Homes Holdings Corp. (2005), Jordan v. State Ex Rel. Department of Motor Vehicles & Public Safety (2005)
2 federal appellate · 15 district · 50 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 Oates v. Jag, Inc. · Kennedy v. Columbia Lumber & Manufacturing Co. · Cosmopolitan Homes, Inc. v. Weller · Calloway v. City of Reno · 8 Ohio St. 3d 3 - McMillan v. Brune-Harpenau-Torbeck Builders, 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a claim to recover damages resulting from a constructional defect, a contractor is liable for his acts or omissions or the acts or omissions of his agents, employees or subcontractors and is not liable for any damages caused by: 1. The acts or omissions of a person other than the contractor or his agent, employee or subcontractor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[d]o not bar or limit any defense otherwise available.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.