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57 N.C. App. 556 - Brooks v. Francis’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Collingwood v. GEN. ELEC. R. EST. EQUIT. (1989), Bolkhir v. North Carolina State University (1988)

32 state decisions

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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 38 N.C. App. 50 - Ballenger v. Crowell · B. BOGLE v. Duke Power Company · 27 N.C. App. 318 - Bogle v. Duke Power Co. · 55 N.C. App. 115 - Lenz v. Ridgewood Associates · Robinson v. Thomas

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(a) The landlord shall: (2) Make all repairs and do whatever is necessary to put and keep the premises in a fit and habitable condition; .... (4) Maintain in good and safe working order and promptly repair all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and other facilities and appliances supplied or required to be supplied by him provided that notification of needed repairs is made to the landlord in writing by the tenant except in emergency situations.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “A violation of the duty to maintain the premises in a fit and habitable condition is evidence of negligence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[a] violation of this Article shall not constitute negligence per se,”
    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.