Michael Kirschbaum’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] possessor of land is subject to liability for physical harm caused to his invitees by a condition on the land if, but only if, he: (a) knows or by the exercise of reasonable care would discover the condition and should realize that it involves an unreasonable risk of harm to such invitees, and (b) should expect that they will not discover or realize the danger, or will fail to protect themselves against it, and (c) fails to exercise reasonable care to protect them against the danger.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 680 F. App'x 72 - Charles McDowell v. Moran Foods LLC

2. “fix[] a part of the building that was originally defective”). Based on this provision of the Preventive Maintenance Agreement, the Court also rejects plaintiffs’ argument that defendant should have replaced the finger guard with a differently designed guard with an”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 864 F. Supp. 2d 291 - Furlan v. Schindler Elevator Corp.

3. “A party pursuing claims for contribution and indemnity can do so only if it has established that it was itself liable to the plaintiff for the plaintiff's injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Encompass Ins. Co. v. Stone Mansion Rest., Inc.