Miller v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1981
9 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 Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Durant Land Improvement Co. · Cook v. . Soule · Culver v. Hill · Vandegrift v. Abbott. · McCoy v. Oldham
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]pon the breach of a covenant of the landlord to repair, the tenant may make the repairs and charge the landlord therewith or he may rely upon the covenant and recover all damages flowing from the breach. ( McCoy v. Oldham, 1 Ind. App. 372 , 27 N.E. 647 , 50 Am. St. Rep. 208 .) In that case the covenant was to clear a part of the land, and the court approved the rule allowing the diminution in rental value as the measure of damages, saying that this is ordinarily the measure of recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]n a breach of the covenant by the landlord to make repairs the measure of damages is the difference between the rental value of the premises as they were and what it would have been if they had been put and kept in repair.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.