Fox v. Corbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 1997
2 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems clear that the owner of the freehold is not entitled to recover for injuries to the possession and enjoyment of the premises while they are in the possession of a tenant, where the nuisance is not of a permanent character. Miller 1 v. Edison, etc. Co., 184 N.Y. 17 , 76 N.E. 734 , 3 L.R.A.(N.S.), 1060, 6 Ann. Cas., 146. The wrongful act may affect two different estates or interests in the same property; and the owner of each should have his right of action. The tenant’s relief is for injury done him in that the enjoyment or usable value of the premises, during his holding is diminished. Tiffany, Landlord and Tenant 2124; 29 Cyc., 1258.”
1 later decision 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.