Humbert v. Sellars’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2013
8 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An aggrieved party includes a tenant's guest who is injured by a landlord's failure to maintain the premises in a habitable condition, if the tenant herself could recover damages for the same injury. The measure of a "habitable condition" may be what is habitable by those who reside in the premises, but when the measure is breached, ORS 91.725 recognizes that others may suffer the consequences. The [tenant's guest] therefore has a cause of action if she is injured because of the [landlord's] breach of the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kunst v. Pass“(k) Working locks for all dwelling entrance doors, and, unless contrary to applicable law, latches for all windows, by which access may be had to that portion of the premises which the tenant is entitled under the rental agreement to occupy to the exclusion of others and keys for such locks which require keys."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bellikka v. Green“[t]he use of the words `aggrieved party' is intended to indicate that in appropriate circumstances rights and remedies may extend to third persons under this Act or supplementary principles of law....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kunst v. Pass
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.