Edwards v. Conforto’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... Plaintiffs maintained that the owners did not pay the insurance premiums nor did they pay the costs of the fire repairs. They argue further that they were justified in their expectation that they would receive the insurance funds because they paid for the damages caused by the fire and two-thirds of the costs for insurance premiums. The lessee, the Confortos, paid the remaining one-third of the insurance premiums.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards v. Conforto

2. “[t]he fire provision in the original lease was entirely deleted and a specific provision was added granting the lessee the option of canceling the lease if the premises were destroyed by fire ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards v. Conforto

3. “the lease was a long-term lease, in excess of 31 years, at a fixed monthly rental of less than $2,000.00.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards v. Conforto