Howe v. Ohmart’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1987
3 federal appellate · 17 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 Powers v. Harlow · City of Indianapolis v. Emmelman · Penso v. McCormick · Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Hedges · Nave v. Flack
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.
“[h]e who uses a building for certain business purposes must keep it in a reasonably safe condition for all who visit the building for the purpose of transacting the ordinary business there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is not necessary that the invitation should be special or even direct. It may be implied from the circumstances and facts of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCulloch v. Horton
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.