Perez v. Rabaud’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 1980 · most notably Renfro Drug Co. v. Lewis (1950), Hindman v. Texas Lime Company (1957)
4 federal appellate · 55 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.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that the owner of leased premises is liable to the public or to third persons for injuries resulting from a defective structure on the premises, when the defect existed at the time the lease was made, or when he had covenanted to repair and keep in repair.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The promise was merely gratuitous, not made at the time. of the lease, and was no part of the original contract. It was without consideration, and could not be enforced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Block
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.