Mitchell v. Christensen’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2021
16 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 Dugan v. Jones · MacRis & Associates, Inc. v. Neways, Inc. · Ron Case Roofing & Asphalt Paving, Inc. v. Blomquist · 84 Ohio App. 3d 33 - Tipton v. Nuzum · Price-Orem Investment Co. v. Rollins, Brown & Gunnell, 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in determining what constitutes reasonable care in the discovery of defects, the proper standard is whether the defect would be apparent to ordinary prudent persons with like experience, not to persons with specialized knowledge in the field of construction or real estate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“although the proper standard for the discoverability of a defect is that of an ordinary prudent person, this does not mean that inspection by an expert will never be required,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“hire numerous expert home inspectors to search for hidden defects,”
2 later decisions 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.