People v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2017
18 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 Giaccio v. State of Pennsylvania · Bertholf v. . O'Reilly · Cullings v. Goetz · Ormsby v. Executors · Defiance Milk Products Co. v. Du Mond
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exercise sufficient care in the selection of his tenant. If he knowingly lets the premises for a purpose which may give rise to liability, he will not be heard to complain, even though [personally] he has done no unlawful act ... Similarly, he cannot permit an unlawful condition to persist with impunity.... People v. Scott, 26 N.Y.2d 286 , 309 N.Y.S.2d 919, 922 , 258 N.E.2d 206, 209 (1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.