Bacon v. Jaques’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1973
21 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 Watkins v. Goodall · Richmond v. Warren Institution for Savings · Marquis v. John Nesmith Real Estate Co. · Shwartz v. Feinberg · Caruso v. Lebowich
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.
““It is settled that a landlord owes to the members of a tenant’s family, and to his guests and invitees the same duty that he owes to the tenant, and that his only duty to the tenant with respect to common passageways and other premises remaining in his, the landlord’s, control is to use due care to keep such parts of the premises in the same conditions as they were or appeared to be in at the time of the letting.....The landlord, however, owes no duty to the tenant or one acting in his right to remove foreign substances from common passageways, whether placed there before or after the letting, unless thereafter he or one for whose acts he is responsible placed the obstruction there.””
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.