Dugan v. Haige’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably State v. Leavitt (1968), McClellan v. Ashley (1958)
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 F. B. Fountain Co. v. Stein · Berkow v. Hammer
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... Dugan holds that equity can relieve against the consequences of a failure to give notice which is a condition precedent to the renewal of a lease when such failure results from ‘accident, fraud, surprise, or mistake, and there are other special circumstances which may warrant the court of equity in granting relief against the consequences of the lessee’s failure to notify the lessor within the stipulated time of an intention to exercise the privilege of renewal.’ Id. at 202_ (I)t is a general rule that equity will intervene only if (1) the tenant’s delay in giving notice of renewal was slight, (2) the delay did not prejudice the landlord, and (3) failure to grant relief would cause the tenant unconscionable hardship.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the lessors had actual notice of the lessees' intention to extend the lease [and] ... the lessors had not been harmed or damaged by the lessees' delay in giving the written notice... .”
1 later decision 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.