Dent v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘A landowner has the right to defend himself as against a common enemy without rendering himself liable for damages, unless he unnecessarily injures or damages another for his own protection. A landowner is under no duty to receive upon his land surface water from the adjacent property, but in the use or improvement of it he may repel such water at his boundary.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reddmann v. Reddmann