Medlock v. Van Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2006
15 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 Maxted v. Pacific Car & Foundry Company · Brubaker v. Glenrock Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows · Parrish v. Witt · Matter of Estate of Mora · Hefferin v. SCOTT REALTY COMPANY
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a lessor [will] not ordinarily be held liable for injuries by a defective condition of the premises which arose after the lessee had taken possession, or for a defective condition which existed at the time possession was delivered unless it was a latent defect which was known to lessor, or concerning which he should have known, and which he did not make known to lessee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lyden v. Winer
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.