B. Shoninger Co. v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Murphy v. Bernheim & Sons, Inc. (1937), Murphy v. Illinois State Trust Co. (1940)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Ward · Springer v. Ford · Payne v. Irvin · Pennsylvania Co. v. Backes
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““that a landlord who rents different parts of a building to various tenants and retains control of the stairways, passageways, hallways, or other methods of approach to the several portions of the building for the, common use of the tenants, has resting upon him an implied duty to use reasonable care to keep such places in a reasonably safe condition, and that he is liable for injuries which result to persons lawfully in the building from a failure to perform such duty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wardman v. Hanlon
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.