Kavanaugh v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2017
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Powell v. Orphanage · Moses v. Old Dominion Iron & Nail Works Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No covenant or promise by a lessee. . . that he will keep or leave the premises in good repair shall have the effect, if the buildings thereon be destroyed by fire or otherwise, in whole or in part, without fault or negligence on his part. . . binding him to make such repairs. . . unless there be other words showing it to be the intent of the parties that he should be so bound.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moses v. Cooper“Negligence being essential to a recovery on an action on a covenant or promise under our statute (sec. 5180), it would seem just as essential when the action is in tort. No valid reason exists for a distinction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moses v. Cooper
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.