Hecht Co. v. Hohensee’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.2d 585 · 1936
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Smith v. District of Columbia (1951), Lyons v. District of Columbia (1954)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Mahoney v. Perreault · Taggart v. Bouldin · Norville v. Hub Furniture Co. · Arning v. Druding
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Norville v. Hub Furniture Co., 59 App.D.C. 29 , 32 F.(2d) 420 , we held that, in the absence of statutory provision to the contrary, the owner or occupant of property owes no duty to pedestrians to keep the sidewalk in front of it free from icé and snow coming thereon from natural causes; nor does a storekeeper owe any greater duty in this regard to customers: leaving his store than he owes to ordinary pedestrians.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] landowner cannot be held liable if he shovels snow from the sidewalk in front of his premises upon the space between the outer edge of the walk and the curb and it melts and runs over the walk and thereafter ice is formed.”
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.