Houser v. Eckhardt’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2015
1 district · 6 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 Adler v. Adler · Mayer v. Sampson · Peterson v. Colorado Potato Flake & Mfg. Co. · Julius Hyman & Co. v. Velsicol Corp. · Houser v. Eckhardt
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For reasons of trial tactics or strategy counsel may elect not to object. That is his privilege, but he cannot await the outcome of the trial and then cite the alleged errors as grounds for reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bondsteel““The subject of measure of damages is a complicated, and often confusing, one. The general underlying principle, however, is that whoever unlawfully injures another shall make him whole.””
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.