Light v. Sheets’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause no rent remained due after application of tenant's recovery on her counterclaim, 'judgment shall be entered for the tenant in the action for possession .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he effect of increasing tenant's damages to $300 is to offset completely the rent that she owed, so that she owed nothing at the time of trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“seeking damages for [the] landlord's breach of the obligation to maintain the dwelling in a habitable condition.”
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.