Robinson v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2000
18 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 Salley v. Fayetteville Coca-Cola Bottling Co. · Pleasants v. . Barnes · R. C. H. Covington Co. v. Masonic Temple Co. · Simons v. . Lebrun · Harrill v. Sinclair Refining 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily, the doctrine of caveat emptor applies to the lessee; Gaither v. Hascall-Richards Steam Generator Co., supra; Hudson v. Silk Co., 185 N.C., 342 , 117 S.E. 165 ; Fields v. Ogburn, 178 N.C., 407 , 100 S.E., 583 . To avoid foreclosure under this doctrine in an action for tortious injury, he must show that there is a latent defect known to the lessor, or which he should have known, involving a menace or danger, and a defect of which the lessee was unaware or could not, by the exercise of ordinary diligence, discover, the concealment of which would be an act of bad faith on the part of the lessor. ‘If the landlord is without knowledge at the time of the letting of any dangerous defect in the premises, he is’ not responsible for any injuries which result from such defect.’ Covington v. Masonic Temple Co., 176 Ky., 729 , 197 S.E., 420 . And he is not liable if he did not believe or suspect that there was any physical condition involving danger. Charlton v. Brunelle, 82 N.H., 100, 130 A., 216 , 43 A.L.R., 1281 .””
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.