Trainor v. Lebeck’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1968
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 Robbins v. Bangor Railway & Electric Co. · Wood v. Cox · Black v. Keiley
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus The test is whether the petitioners’ tenant occupied the house as a home for himself and his wife and children, and incidentally kept boarders also, or whether he occupied it as a place for carrying on the business of keeping boarders, although, while prosecuting the business and as a means of prosecuting the business, he and his wife and children live in the house also. Under this test, neither the size of the house nor the number of the boarders are of importance, except as evidence that may have weight in determining which is the principal use for which the building is occupied.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rosenblatt v. Levin
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.