83 Misc. 2d 39 - Merrick v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2012
1 district · 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“between mere negligent maintenance of property and affirmative acts of negligence in the actual creation of a nuisance or dangerous condition. In the latter instance, ownership or possession of the property upon which the condition is found, is not necessarily a prerequisite to responsibility for injury or damage which results therefrom. * * * * * * The claim here is based solely on allegations of affirmative acts of negligence in the creation of a dangerous condition on the ... property. Under this theory, ownership is immaterial and the fact that defendant transferred his interest in the property prior to the dates in question does not render the complaint insufficient as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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