Harris v. Joffe’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently April 1972 · most notably 44 Cal. 2d 225 - Austin v. Riverside Portland Cement Co. (1955), Finnegan v. Royal Realty Co. (1950)
3 federal appellate · 64 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 Berkovitz v. American River Gravel Co. · 68 Cal. App. 2d 485 - McKellar v. Pendergast · 1 Cal. App. 2d 349 - Hughes v. Quackenbush · Wills v. JJ Newberry Co. · 101 Cal. App. 318 - Sweatman v. Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a portion of the premises is reserved by the landlord for use in common by himself and his tenants, or by different tenants, a duty is imposed upon the property owner to keep that particular portion of the premises in a safe condition. [Citations omitted.]”
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.