Revell v. Deegan’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Gulf Reston, Inc. v. Rogers (1974), Langhorne Road Apartments, Inc. v. Bisson (1966)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Williamson v. Wellman
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A landlord who rents out parts of a building to various tenants, reserving the halls, stairways, and other approaches for the common use of his tenants, is under an implied duty to use ordinary care to keep such places in a reasonably safe condition, and is Uable for injuries to persons lawfuUy using those places for failure to perform that duty. Williamson v. Wellman, 156 Va. 417, 425 , 158 S. E. 777 ; 32 Am. Jur., Landlord and Tenant § 688, p. 561 if.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.