McCready v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2022
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.
Relationships
Relies on Sentry Water Systems, Inc. v. Adca Corp.
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.
“We know of no statutory or case law holding that a tenant, who has been lawfully evicted pursuant to statutory procedure, can maintain an action in tort against a landlord for damaged personal property, absent some showing that such damage was intentionally or maliciously done,....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Underlying or implicit in all decisions is that the act of the landlord constituting the constructive eviction be wrongful, unwarranted, or unlawful. Eviction, whether actual or constructive, to be actionable must be wrongful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kaplan v. McCabe
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.