Otis Elevator Co. v. Arey-Hauser Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 1954
2 federal appellate · 1 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 Holt v. Henley · Detroit Steel Cooperage Company v. Sistersville Brewing Company R H F · Central Lithograph Co. v. Eatmor Chocolate Co. · Pennsylvania Chocolate Co. v. Hershey Bros. · S. F. Bowser & Co. v. Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Within comparatively recent years our language has been enriched by a new use of the old word ‘Plant’. It is an organized physical equipment to produce any desired result, or, as it has been phrased, it is an ‘operating unit.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.