Sacks v. Pleasant’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Moran v. Fabergé, Inc. (1975), Schroyer v. McNeal (1991)
2 district · 43 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 People's Drug Stores, Inc. v. Windham · Gibson v. BEAVER AND SOUTHERN STATES HOWARD COUNTY PETROLEUM COOP., INC. · P. Flanigan & Sons, Inc. v. Childs · Yellow Cab Co. v. Hicks · Evans v. Johns Hopkins University
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled in Maryland that under certain conditions a tenant may maintain an ac- . tion for injuries sustained as a result of a defect in rented premises, despite the absence, at com mon law, of an implied covenant to repair or a warranty of the fitness for the occupancy of leased premises. These conditions are, that there be a contractual undertaking to make repairs, notice of the particular defect, and a reasonable opportunity to correct it. Where these conditions are met, there arises an obligation to use reasonable care to make the repairs, for the negligent breach of which there is a tort liability, subject to the usual rules as to proof of causation and the absence of contributory negligence on the part of the tenant. * * Id. at 6, 7 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a tenant ... may maintain an action for injuries sustained as a result of an uncorrected defect ... if there was a contractual obligation to repair the particular defect and a reasonable opportunity to correct it.... A promise made in the face of a threat to move or a request by the landlord that the tenant remain creates a contract supported by consideration”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . Mrs. Pleasant was not, as a matter of law, contributorily negligent, nor did she, as a matter of law, assume the risk. Whether she acted reasonably or unreasonably under the circumstances was a question properly submitted for determination by the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.