Kennedy v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1987
17 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 Charles E. Burt, Inc. v. Seven Grand Corp. · McNally v. Moser · Martin v. Leonard Motor-El Paso · O'Neal v. Bainbridge · Barfield v. Damon
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a well recognized general principle of law that one claiming constructive eviction must vacate the premises . . . However, the general rule is subject to an important qualification. Reoccurrence of conditions or reliance on promises by the landlord to correct the deficiency may create a justification for delay in vacating the premises.”
2 later decisions 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.