8 Cal. 4th 812 - Brown v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Fresh Cut, Inc. v. Fazli (1995), 202 Cal. App. 4th 35 - Frittelli, Inc. v. 350 North Canon Drive, LP (2011)
6 district · 18 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 Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals, Inc. v. Blankenship · Finnegan v. Royal Realty Co. · First National Stores, Inc. v. Yellowstone Shopping Center, Inc. · 106 Wash. 2d 826 - Fisher Properties, Inc. v. Arden-Mayfair, Inc. · Washington University v. Royal Crown Bottling Co. of St. Louis
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, although broadly applicable criteria for determining the repair and compliance with laws obligations of the parties to a nonresidential lease can be articulated, it does not follow that the outcome in a particular case can be easily forecast on the basis of the text of the lease alone. Each agreement must be evaluated in light of its individual terms under generally applicable contextual criteria and the principle of reasonable construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“alone was not decisive, but rather, 50 the lease agreement as a whole, including its comparatively long 15-year term, the lessees' agreement to pay property taxes, to assume the risk of third party liability and to insure against that risk, the unqualified nature of the repair clause, the lessor's”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“ambiguity as to how the parties intended to allocate responsibility for compliance with government-ordered alterations unrelated to the lessees' use.”
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.