Nicholas v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2014
10 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 Cobb v. Standard Drug Co., Inc. · McNeal v. Habib · Dameron v. Capitol House Associates Ltd. Partnership · Thornhill v. Atlantic Life Ins. · Young & Simon, Inc. v. Brown
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absent an agreement to pay rent, the tenant is not under any obligation to pay rent.... [However,] the tenant [may be] liable for the reasonable worth of his use and occupation and the landlord is entitled to recover in an appropriate action the amount owed by the tenant. This amount is not rent, and hence the landlord’s rights thereto are not the rights he has with respect to rent.”) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted); see also Novak, 538 A.2d at 751 n. 4 (distinguishing Nicholas on the ground that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“D.C.Code § 45-222 (1981), defines appel-lees’ status (while they remained in appellants’ townhouse) as a tenancy at will.... However, this reference to a tenancy does not operate to impose contractual obligations, i.e., for the payment of rent, upon the parties. Its purpose was to make the expeditious ejectment procedures of the Landlord and Tenant court available to the new owner (§ 45-1410) and to assure reasonable notice to the occupier (§ 45-1403).”
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.