Lederman v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Before a nuisance may properly be said to exist, there must be an invasion of a public right or else of a right that arises from an interest in land, (citing authorities) No right to which the plaintiff was entitled in either of these respects- is claimed to have been invaded, but only a purely personal right to which he was entitled because alone of the fact that he was on the premises as an invitee. It follows, therefore, that in a legal sense and as regards the plaintiff the incline was not, in the respects relied upon, a nuisance”. (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wallace v. Horn

2. “It affirmatively appearing of record that plaintiff could not plead a good cause of action on the basis of nuisance if given the opportunity to replead, the action of the trial court in sustaining defendants’ motion to strike, even though improper because the motion was too general, does not require a reversal of the trial court’s judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Parras v. McLelland