Doyle v. . Lord’s Empirical Analysis

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53 state decisions

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

1. ““ This conclusion is reached without any departure from what may be called the American doctrine as to light and air, as distinguished from the English common law doctrine, and the law as laid down in the following authorities is fully recognized: Parker v. Foote ( 19 Wend. 315 ); Palmer v. Wetmore (2 Sandf. Sup. C. R. 316); Myers v. Gemmel ( 10 Barb. 537 ); Mullen v. Stricker ( 19 Ohio State, 135 ); Haverstick v. Sipe (33 Penn. State, 368); Keats v. Hugo ( 115 Mass. 204 ). Under these authorities, if the lessor had sold the store and lot upon which it stood, twenty-five feet by fifty-one, the grantee would have taken no right to light and air from the balance of the lot. In that case the grantor could have built upon the balance of the lot, and thus have darkened the windows in the store without violating any rights of the grantee.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pica v. Cross County Construction Corp.

2. “To this extent, in any view of the case, the plaintiffs were entitled to enjoy an easement in the yard. They were so far interested in it, that the defendants could not change its condition to their detriment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Story v. . New York Elevated R.R. Co.