Klein v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently April 1995 · most notably Loescher v. Parr (1975), 365 So. 2d 1285 - Olsen v. Shell Oil Co. (1978)
4 federal appellate · 128 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 Boutte v. New Orleans Terminal Co. · Schoppel v. Daly · Breen v. Walters · Brodtman v. Finerty · Cristadoro v. Von Behren's Heirs
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"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."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“allow another person to use the property for any particular purpose”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Article 670 makes every owner of a building liable in damages to any neighbor or passer-by who is injured by the fall of any part of the building, through negligence on the part of the owner to keep his building in repair. Article 2322 makes every owner of a building answerable in damages to any person who is injured—either while rightfully inside or while outside of the building—by an accident resulting either from the owner’s neglect to repair the building or from a vice or defect in its original construction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matranga v. Hilman
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.