Sloan v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Lockhart v. Loosen (1997), Lay v. Dworman (1987)
32 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 Nicholson v. Tacker · Sarkeys v. Haas · Hembree v. Southard Ex Rel. Wilson · Rush Ex Rel. Rush v. Mullins
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he right to recover expenses of litigation is strictly a matter of statute [citation omitted]. We know of no statute, and none is called to our attention, which authorizes the assessment of expert witness fees as costs. That being the case [plaintiffs] were limited by the provisions of 12 O.S.1971, Sections 1 and 81, (as applicable when this case was tried) which provide for the payment of witness fees on a per day and per mile basis ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dulan v. Johnston“(1) the existence of a duty on [the] part of defendant to protect plaintiff from injury; (2) a violation of that duty; and (8) injury proximately resulting therefrom.”
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.