Mack v. LaValley’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Debarros (2000), Meek v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2002)
72 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 State v. Golding · Willow Springs Condominium Ass'n v. Seventh BRT Development Corp. · Haynes v. Yale-New Haven Hospital · Turner v. Turner · Kirby v. Planning Board of Review
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the landlord retains control of a portion of the demised premises . . . the landlord must use reasonable care to keep that portion of the premises in a reasonably safe condition. . . . In order to demonstrate a breach of this duty the plaintiff must show that the defendants had actual knowledge of the defect or that they were chargeable with constructive notice of it, because had they exercised a reasonable inspection of the premises, they would have discovered it.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he statute as written reflects an intention by the legislature not only to prohibit a double recovery by a plaintiff, but also to provide that in a situation where an award already is reduced by an amount attributable to a plaintiff's percentage of negligence, a defendant is not to receive a benefit or CT Page 12898 windfall of a further reduction in the award on account of benefits received b a plaintiff due to the plaintiff's prudence .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is the duty of the court to interpret statutes as they are written ... and not by construction read into statutes provisions which are not clearly stated.... Moreover, principles of statutory construction require the court to construe a statute in a manner that will not frustrate its intended purpose or lead to an absurd result.”
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.