Spellman v. Sherry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Certainly we cannot say that a lodge of the Veterans of Foreign Wars is ordinarily expected to become a nuisance. Nor is a plumbing or electric shop ordinarily a nuisance. Unless so, the landlord is not liable for the acts of the tenants. ‘The rule of law on the subject, as laid down both by the English courts and those of the United States, is that to bring liability home to the owner of real property, the nuisance must be one which is in its very essence and nature a nuisance at the time of the letting, and not something which is capable of being thereafter rendered a nuisance by the tenants, or, as it has been said, it must be a normal one.’ 16 R.C. . . par. 593, p. 1074.” 72 P.2d 793 at p. 795 . (Emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hoyle v. Glenn E. Breeding Co.

2. ““Where a building has been constructed on two lots, and thereafter, while the building remains on the two lots, one of the lots is sold by the owner, the purchaser takes the same with all the benefits existing, though those benefits impose a burden on the other lot;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Curry v. Southwall Corporation