Eliason v. Englehart’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably LeVan v. Independence Mall, Inc. (2007), CML V, LLC v. Bax (2011)
30 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 32 Del. Ch. 527 - E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Clark · Irvine v. Inn at Castle Hill, Inc. · 7 Ohio App. 3d 167 - Seabrooke v. Garcia · Duffy v. Loft Inc. · Duffy v. Loft, Inc.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court must first determine whether or not the statute is ambiguous. If the statute is found to be clear and unambiguous, then the plain meaning of the statutory language controls.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.