Weinstein v. Barrasso’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1989
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . nor is the landlord liable when the injury results from defects in appliances on premises leased by him to another when these defects arise after the lease without the landlord’s fault, though he is liable if the damage is caused by defects existing at the time of such lease. ’ ’”
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.