Bentley v. Dynarski’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably State v. Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton (1987), Thomas v. Roper (1972)
57 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 Webel v. Yale University · Dean v. Hershowitz · Masterson v. Atherton · Martel v. Malone · Bambus v. Bridgeport Gas Co.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o cause of action sounding in nuisance is available to the tenant against his landlord.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a tenant takes exclusive possession of demised premises, he ordinarily takes them as he find them . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hether the stairway here was included in the plaintiffs' lease and thus was under their CT Page 13335 control as tenants or was reserved by the defendant and so was under her control is essentially a question of intentions to be determined, in the absence of an expression in the lease, in the light of all the significant circumstances, such as the location of the stairway and the use actually made of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.