Jarvis v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1970
20 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 Smith, By, Etc. v. Hines, Director General · Louisville N. R. Co. v. Vaughn · Lucas v. Hammond · Ice Delivery Co. v. Thomas · Carr v. Oregon-Washington R.R. Nav. 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * This ramp was no more dangerous than any other structure upon which a child may climb and get hurt by jumping or falling therefrom. * * If this ramp was an attractive nuisance, then any other structure upon which a child might clim^and jump or fall from, likewise must be so classified.””
1 later decision 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.