Brown v. Dermer’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Okwa v. Harper (2000), Muthukumarana v. Montgomery County (2002)
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 70 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 General Electric Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers · Heat & Power Corp. v. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. · Beatty v. Trailmaster Products, Inc. · Jacques v. First National Bank · Schoenbaum v. Firstbrook
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is clear that it is unlawful to lease a dwelling with flaking, loose or peeling paint and that no premises are to be leased for human habitation, except those that are fit for human habitation, i.e. those that are kept in good repair and safe condition as defined in the Baltimore City Code. To be sure, § 706 prohibits the use of lead-based paint for interior painting in a dwelling unit; however, neither it nor § § 702 or 703 limits the prohibition of flaking, loose or peeling paint to lead-based paint. To be a violation, all that must be shown is that there was flaking, loose or peeling paint, without any further showing as to the content of the paint. Moreover, none of the provisions of the Housing Code premises violation on the landlord’s knowledge of the hazards of lead-based paint.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n order to make out a prima facie case in a negligence action, all that a plaintiff must show is: (a) the violation of a statute or ordinance designed to protect a specific class of persons which includes the plaintiff, and (b) that the violation proximately caused the injury complained of. Proximate cause is established by determining whether the plaintiff is within the class of persons sought to be protected, and the harm suffered is of a kind which the drafters intended the statute to prevent.... It is the existence of this cause and effect relationship that makes the violation of a statute prima facie evidence of negligence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) In general. Every building ... occupied as a dwelling shall, while in use ..., be kept in good repair, in safe condition, and fit for human habitation."”
2 later decisions 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.