Deutsch v. Abeles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the absence of anything tending to show any obligation on the part of the landlord to repair, we do not see how he can be held liable for a nuisance created by his tenant . . . The landlord’s liability in respect to the possession is suspended, except as to matters of defective construction existing when the premises were let. The general rule undoubtedly is, that the landlord is not liable for a nuisance created by the act or neglect of his tenant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reinhardt v. Holmes