Ramsay v. Morrissette’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2009
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Goldberg v. Housing Auth. of City of Newark · Kendall v. Gore Properties, Inc. · Kay v. Cain · Argonne Apartment House Co. v. Garrison · Levine v. Katz
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The traditional duty of reasonable care under all the circumstances . . . [applies] to those parts of the building used in common by all tenants where it can be shown that the landlord was aware of a dangerous situation and took no action either to remedy the situation or to warn the tenants of the danger. . . . “We by no means suggest that there is a general legal duty on the landlord to provide full time resident managers or to install locks on the front door of an apartment house. The test is what is reasonable in all the circumstances. And we point out that if in these changing times of modern urban living circumstances exist which may require that the landlord’s duty of reasonable care encompass steps to deter or prevent criminal acts against his tenant, these same circumstances affect the tenant’s concomitant duty to use reasonable care for his own safety. . . .” 252 A. 2d at 512-13 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a landlord's duty to those persons legally on the premises is to use reasonable care with respect to those portions of a building over which he retains control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“define the limits of a landlord's liability to prevent, deter, or control criminal conduct around or within the leased premises,”
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.