Lay v. Dworman’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Gaines-Tabb v. ICI Explosives, USA, Inc. (1998), McClung v. Delta Square Ltd. Partnership (1996)
11 federal appellate · 28 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 Scott v. Watson · Kline v. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue Apartment Corp. · Braitman v. Overlook Terrace Corp. · 116 Cal. App. 3d 901 - 7735 Hollywood Boulevard Venture v. Superior Court · Keel v. Titan Construction Corp.
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.
“inadequately secured due to ineffective or defective materials ... [creates] a duty on the part of the landlord to provide repairs or modifications ... upon notification of the defect by the tenant. This duty arises from the landlord-tenant contract and from the implication that the landlord is to provide services under the contract in a diligent manner.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[B]y retaining control over aspects of the premises such as door and window locks or alarm devices which directly relate to security, the landlord faces potential liability when the circumstances are such that a reasonable man would realize that a failure to act would render one relying on those actions susceptible to criminal acts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“One who undertakes, gratuitously or for consideration, to render services to another which he should recognize as necessary for the protection of the other's person or things, is subject to liability to the other for physical harm resulting from his failure to exercise reasonable care to perform his undertaking, if (a) his failure to exercise such care increases the risk of such harm... .”
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.