Brewer v. Erwin’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Shroades v. Rental Homes, Inc. (1981), Hall v. May Department Stores Co. (1981)
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 34 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2996E
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[t]he additional requirement that defendant’s means of inflicting the injury must have been extraordinary is explained as necessary, first, to distinguish actionable conduct from insults, ill temper, and offensive jokes that persons are expected to endure * * * and second, to provide a setting of objective reality for a claim of harm that otherwise rests only on evidence of the plaintiffs subjective reaction divorced from physiological or other tangible injury.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall be so administered that an aggrieved party may recover appropriate damages”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(C) Connected to a sewage disposal system approved under applicable law and maintained in good working order to the extent that the system can be controlled by the landlord; (d) Adequate heating facilities which conform to applicable law at the time of installation and maintained in good working order; (e) Electrical lighting with wiring and electrical equipment which conform to applicable law at the time of installation and maintained in good working order; (f) Building, grounds and appurtenances at the time of the commencement of the rental agreement in every part clean, sanitary, and free from all accumulations of debris, filth, rubbish, garbage, rodents and vermin, and all areas under control of the landlord kept in every part clean, sanitary and free from all accumulations of debris, filth, rubbish, garbage, rodents and vermin; (g)(A) An adequate number of appropriate receptacles for garbage and rubbish in clean condition and good repair at the time of the commencement of the lease or rental agreement, and the landlord shall provide and maintain appropriate serviceable receptacles thereafter and arrange for their removal unless the parties by written agreement provide otherwise; and (B) In addition to the provisions of subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, in a city with a population of over 250,000 people, garbage removal service at least two times a month for containers that allow for 30 gallons accumulation a week; (h) Floors, walls, ceilings, stairways and railings mai”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bellikka v. Green
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.