Steffan v. . Meiselman’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Olivetti Corp. v. Ames Business Systems, Inc. (1987), Perkins v. Langdon (1953)
5 federal appellate · 32 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the argument here addressed to the question of nonsuit, and we assume in the hearing below, counsel for the defendant relied strongly on Leavitt v. Rental Co., 222 N.C. 81 , and cited cases, which follows the rule adopted in Fields v. Ogburn, 178 N.C. 407 , 100 S.E. 583 ; Duffy v. Hartsfield, 180 N.C. 151 , 104 S.E. 139 , and similar cases between landlord and tenant, all of which relate to repairs on the demised premises or conditions thereupon for which it was sought to hold the owner or land lord liable. That situation does not obtain here. Steffan did not rent that portion of the building containing the toilet and had no control of it — on the contrary, it was occupied and was under the control of the defendant. The gravamen of plaintiff’s case is injury inflicted upon him by the defendant in the negligent or malicious use of his own property and the instrumental-ities thereupon under his control. Defendant’s liability, arising from such a source, would not be affected or alleviated by the rental contract in evidence. “The evidence of plaintiff without doubt entitles him to go to the jury on the question of damage to his premises and property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘If a regular and established business is wrongfully interrupted, damage thereto can be shown by proving the usual profits for a reasonable time anterior to the wrong complained of.’ ””
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.