Bates v. Blitz’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The enjoyment must be guaranteed to the tenant, not only of his apartment itself, but also of the accessories, such as the entrance, the janitor’s lodge, the courtyard, the stairways, the cellars, the water wells. “The tenant, having the right to use not only the principal thing, but also the accessories, his enjoyment must be guaranteed of the latter as well as of the principal thing. “Among the accessories must be included the common parts of the property, those of which the tenant has the enjoyment with other tenants. * * *” (Italics ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bates v. Blitz