Payne v. Irvin’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1958 · most notably B. Shoninger Co. v. Mann (1905), Murphy v. Illinois State Trust Co. (1940)
33 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.
Relationships
Relies on Looney v. McLean · Priest v. Nichols · Toole v. Beckett · Bissell v. Lloyd · Center & Treadwell v. Davis
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The landlord, as to that portion of the building, and appurtenances, over which he retains control, must be held to also retain the responsibility to keep the same in reasonable repair in respect of all persons, including the tenants of the building.””
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.