Johnson v. Mazza’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
January 2017
most recently cited
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Emigrant Savings Bank v. Cam · Rubano v. DiCenzo · Jewish Home for Elderly of Fairfield County, Inc. v. Cantore · Niehaus v. Cowles Business Media, Inc. · Barber v. Jacobs
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.
“Under the terms of a lease agreement, a landlord holds a tenant's security deposit in trust for the tenant. [A] security deposit ... is the tenant's property and ... the landlord holds it for the tenant's benefit subject to the tenant's fulfilling all its obligations under the lease. Indeed, a security deposit by definition is [m]oney deposited by tenant with landlord as security for full and faithful performance by [the] tenant of [the] terms of the lease, including damages to premises. It is refundable unless the tenant has caused damage or injury to the property or has breached the terms of the tenancy or the laws governing the tenancy .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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