Ingram v. Fred’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1973
9 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 Grigsby v. Reib · Swayne v. Lone Acre Oil Co. · Howeth v. Anderson · Tedstrom v. Puddephatt · Berman v. Shelby
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the lease contract in the present suit did not expressly and specifically bind the landlord to repair the roof, in case it should become so leaky as to render the building un-tenantable, yet we think that such obligation was clearly implied from the terms of the lease itself. The obligation of the tenant expressed in the lease to notify the lessor if the building should leak,, and the further stipulation that the lessor ‘shall have reasonable time to repair the same,’ clearly imports am understanding between the parties to the instrument that the lessor would make such repairs upon receiving such notice. In the absence of such an understanding, that clause in the lease would be entirely useless. Furthermore, to exempt the landlord from damages to the tenant resulting from defects in the roof, for which he would be liable under the common-law rule, in the absence of a stipulation to the contrary, and at the same time to hold the tenant liable for the full contract price of the lease, which he agreed to pay upon the understanding that the building was tenantable, would be unreasonable and obviously unjust to the tenant upon the plainest principles of equity, and such a construction therefore should not be favored.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingram v. Fred““And if the landlord was obligated to so repair the roof of the building that obligation was not discharged by the efforts he made to remedy the defects, upon his further plea that such efforts constituted reasonable diligence to accomplish that purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingram v. Fred““In case building shall, from any cause, leak, lessee shall notify lessor of same in writing, and he shall have reasonable time to repair same, and shall not be liable for damages accruing therefrom.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingram v. Fred
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.