Sweatt v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2018
8 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 603 So. 2d 824 - O'CAIN v. Harvey Freeman and Sons, Inc. · Hill v. London, Stetelman, & Kirkwood, Inc. · Wright v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Recognizing that building and housing codes which affect health and safety generally are often governed locally, I advocate that the bare minimum standard for an implied warranty of habitability should require a landlord to provide reasonably safe premises at the inception of a lease, and to exercise reasonable care to repair dangerous defective conditions upon notice of their existence by the tenant, unless expressly waived by the tenant.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is thus apparent that the concurrence in O'Cain advocated a general implied warranty of habitability for residential leases, and not the sort of strict liability for all housing code defects advocated by Sweatt herein. These concurring justices did interpret the incorporation of housing code standards into the RLTA as an indication that the Legislature intended to abolish the doctrine of caveat emptor with regard to residential leases in favor of an implied warranty of habitability. This Court has never held, however, that a lessor is strictly liable in tort for each and every violation of housing code provisions, as Sweatt would seem to advocate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Houston v. York“¶ 17. At trial, Sweatt's requests for instructions on the RLTA and/or the Standard Housing Code were denied. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the Murphys on the personal injury claim. On appeal Sweatt unsuccessfully advanced the argument that the Murphy's failure to comply with the RLTA's provision mandating landlords/owners to comply with applicable”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Houston v. York
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.