Sundown, Inc. v. Canal Square Associates

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• where landlord’s liability to tenant A for breach of lease was due to tenant B’s breach of its lease with same landlord, awarding landlord as damages against tenant B the sum landlord paid tenant A was proper
• valid contract provision can authorize attorneys’ fees
• valid contract provision can authorize attorneys' fees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bay General Industries, Inc. v. Johnson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1980-08-14· cited 47×
• Farmland Industries, Inc. v. Grain Board of Iraq
  D.C. Circuit· 1990-06-12· cited 45×
• Stansel v. American Security Bank
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1988-09-23· cited 45×
• Rittenberg v. Donohoe Const. Co., Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1981-01-05· cited 34×
• Phenix-Georgetown, Inc. v. Chas. H. Tompkins Co.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1984-05-15· cited 31×
• Rice v. Rice
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1980-05-30· cited 31×
• Urban Masonry Corp. v. N&N Contractors, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1996-05-16· cited 21×
• Answering Service, Inc. v. Egan
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-02-28· cited 19×
• Biddle v. Chatel
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1980-09-16· cited 14×
• Capitol Hill Group v. Shaw Pittman LLP (In Re Capital Hill Group)
  District of Columbia· 2004-08-17· cited 12×
• Hagans Management Co., Inc. v. Nichols
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-12-03· cited 10×
• Nofziger Communications, Inc., a District of Columbia Corporation v. Frederick P. Birks, as Trustee of the Wynmark Trust
  D.C. Circuit· 1993-04-13· cited 7×
• Kawa Leasing, Ltd. v. Yacht Sequoia
  D. Maryland· 1982-07-09· cited 6×
• Canada v. Management Partnership, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1993-01-08· cited 3×
• Unnamed case
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-02-28
• Mills Law Group LLP v. Republic of Iraq
  District of Columbia· 2024-09-27

Cites

33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society
  Supreme Court· 1975-05-12· cited 4,586×
• F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co.
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-28· cited 1,056×
• Vaughan v. Atkinson
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 753×
• 1901 Wyoming Avenue Cooperative Ass'n v. Lee
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1975-09-30· cited 104×
• Artvale, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant-Respondent v. Rugby Fabrics Corp. And Barmil Associates, Ltd., Defendants-Respondents-Appellants
  Second Circuit· 1966-07-15· cited 71×
• Order of Ahepa v. Travel Consultants, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1976-12-20· cited 51×
• Burbridge v. Howard University
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1973-05-30· cited 45×
• Sears, Roebuck and Company v. Goudie
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1972-06-30· cited 38×
• Federal Surety Co. v. Basin Construction Co.
  Montana Supreme Court· 1931-12-02· cited 35×
• Mundy v. Knutson Construction Company
  Texas Supreme Court· 1956-10-24· cited 33×
• Gary W. Freed v. The Travelers, and Cooper-Jarrett, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1962-04-09· cited 32×
• Continental Insurance Company v. Lynham
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1972-07-17· cited 27×
• William B. Wolf v. William Cohen
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-06-14· cited 25×
• Friedman v. Thomas J. Fisher & Co.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1952-04-14· cited 23×
• Fausett Builders, Inc. v. Globe Indemnity Co.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1952-04-14· cited 22×
• Artvale, Inc. v. Rugby Fabrics Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1964-06-23· cited 21×
• Vaughan v. Atkinson
  Fourth Circuit· 1961-06-06· cited 21×
• Murphy v. O'Donnell
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1948-12-27· cited 20×
• FW Berens Sales Co., Inc. v. McKinney
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1973-10-19· cited 19×
• Meyers v. Antone
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1967-03-07· cited 19×