Levy v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While it is of course true that the defendant was not bound to insure the safety of his patrons, it is nevertheless certain it was his duty to exercise that degree of vigilance for their protection which Avas made necessary by his knowledge of danger. This duty was not merely passive. It Avas an active obligation to guard against the very risk his own evidence shows might reasonably have been anticipated.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. Amphitheatre Corp.