Dowler v. Boczkowski’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 2009
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Marini v. Ireland · Trentacost v. Brussel · Berzito v. Gambino · LaBrasca v. Hinchman · Murphy v. JOHNSMANVILLE PRODUCTS CORPORATION
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not require the installation of smoke detectors in single-family homes before the obligation was created by statute and implementing regulations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]laintiffs [had] never complained to the landlord about the lack of smoke detectors or the placement of the existing smoke detector.”
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.