Metzger v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1986
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Ahern v. . Steele · Sunnyside Coal & Coke Co. v. Reitz · Smith v. New York Central Rail Road · Connor v. Giles · Helwig v. Jordan
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also the general rule that the occupier of lands is prima facie responsible for any nuisance maintained thereon and not the owner. But to this rule there are several well-defined exceptions. The owner is responsible ... if he creates a nuisance, and then demises with the nuisance thereon, although he is out of possession. ... an action will lie against one who erects a nuisance without any request to abate it; ... If the owner create a nuisance, knowledge of its. existence is necessarily involved in the act. ... If a landlord demise his property, the law requires him to know its condition at the time he accepts a tenant . . . .” (Our italics.)”
2 later decisions 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.