Siggins v. McGill’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1956 · most notably Taneian v. Meghrigian (1954), Gibson v. Hoppman (1928)
34 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 Looney v. McLean
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a case of a demise, the entry and occupancy are pursuant to an estate vested in the tenant, and are exclusive of the landlord; while, in the case of passageways and stairways that are retained in the legal possession of the landlord, and are simply used by the tenants as appurtenances to the property demised to them, their ingress and egress are by virtue either of invitation or of necessity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Starr v. Sperry
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.