Adler v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 1989 · most notably Watkins v. Scott Paper Co. (1976), Sewell v. Grand Lodge of the International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (1971)
8 federal appellate · 50 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 Anderson v. State · Bird v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance · Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Drennen · Knowles v. Blue · Best Park & Amusement Co. v. Rollins
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As applied to the relation of landlord and tenant and liability for injury to the latter from defects in the premises, where there was an express agreement to repair, the case of Hart v. Coleman , 201 Ala. 345 , 78 So. 201 , L.R.A. 1918E, 213 , declares the rule of this court. In that case the holding was that, where the promise of a landlord to a tenant by the month to repair the porch was under the latter's threat to move unless such repairs were made, such promise was founded on a sufficient consideration; and the landlord, being notified or observing that the floor of considerable height was rotten in front of the door, failed after such promise to repair, and the tenant receiving injury by a fall through such insufficient and unsafe flooring was permitted to recover damages in an action ex contractu. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.