Moskowitz v. Herman’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Carrino v. Novotny (1979), Mirza v. Filmore Corp. (1983)
2 district · 34 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 Greenspan v. Slate · Saco v. Hall · Braelow v. Klein · Dobrow v. Hertz · Rupp v. Burgess
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Much may be said for the position that, in the light of current urban conditions, landowners (at least those engaged in commercial activity) should now be held accountable ... for damages resulting from their failure to discharge their statutory duty of maintaining the sidewalks in front of their premises. [ Id at 228, 108 A.2d 426 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The foregoing doctrine is pregnant with seeds of gross injustice for it tends to immunize the wrongdoer whose flagrant neglect of duty has caused injury to an innocent party who is left with recourse against no one. [16 N. J. at 228].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yanhko v. Fane
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.