Davis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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

1. ““The general rule is well settled in New York, that an abutting owner owes no duty to a passerby to remove snow, or to prevent the accumulation of water, or the formation of ice on the sidewalk in front of his building, provided he does not intervene with what falls or accumulates.2 [Footnote 2: Moore v. Gadsden, 87 N.Y. 84 ; Id., 93 N.Y. 12 ; Hendley v. Daw Drug Co., 293 N.Y. 790 , 59 N.E.2d 31 ; Zysk v. City of New York, 274 App.Div. 915 , 83 N.Y.S.2d 339 , affirmed 300 N.Y. 507 , 89 N.E.2d 244 .] To this doctrine there is, however, an exception that he becomes liable * * * if in removing snow or ice he creates a . pathway dangerous to wayfarers.4 [Footnote 4: Green v. Murray M. Rosenberg, Inc., 295 N.Y. 584 , 64 N.E.2d 286 ; Nelson v. Schultz, 170 Misc. 681 , 11 N.Y.S.2d 184 .]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dix v. United States