Frank v. Suthon’s Empirical Analysis
159 F. 174 · 1908
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1987
6 federal appellate · 4 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 Schoppel v. Daly · Brodtman v. Finerty · Cristadoro v. Von Behren's Heirs · Bianchi v. Del Valle · McConnell v. Lemley
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.
“"I think it is clearly the law, then, that the landlord and owner of the building is liable in damages to all persons who are lawfully in his building for injuries sustained by them as the result of the dilapidated condition of the building; * * *." (Emphasissupplied)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The owner of a building is answerable for the damage occasioned by its ruin, when this is caused by neglect to repair it, or when it is the result of a vice in its original construction.”
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.