Ott v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Johnson v. State (1985), 170 Ind. App. 586 - Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission v. McShane (1976)
57 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 State Ex Rel. Bynum v. LaPorte Superior Court No. 1 · State Farm Life Ins. Co. v. SPIDEL ET UX. · People's Gas Co. v. Tyner · State v. Gilbert · State v. Squibb
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is only when the language of the statute is ambiguous that the courts should search for legislative intent."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bodine v. Hiler
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.