Avery v. Dougherty’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 1987 · most notably Opple v. Ray (1935), Jordan v. Indianapolis Water Co. (1902)
5 federal appellate · 48 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 Edgerton v. . Page · Hines v. Driver · Jackson School Township v. Farlow · The Mayor, C., of New-York v. . Mabie · Hayner v. Smith
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While accepting the general rule to be that stated, the American authorities agree that, if the contract itself shows that the words were not used as merely descriptive of the person, they will not be so regarded, but will be assigned their real meaning.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellis v. Stone““An interruption of a tenant by the landlord is not necessarily an eviction of him. And nothing less than an eviction will suspend rent [either] in whole or in part.” [Emphasis added] 2 N.E. at 126 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nate v. Galloway““It is quite well settled that it is not every entry of the landlord, although wrongful, that constitutes a breach of covenant; a landlord may be a trespasser without breaking the covenant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sigsbee v. Swathwood
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.