Hill v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 16 Ill. 2d 268 - Peck v. Peck (1959), Wolfe v. Stanford (1937)
49 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Carroll v. Ballance · Howey v. Goings · Crosby v. Loop · Ex parte Cubbage v. Franklin
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it clear, from the authorities, that, upon appellant’s purchase of his interest in the reversion, there was a merger, pro tanto, of the term, and consequently the covenants to pay rent, taxes, assessments, etc., were thereby extinguished as to the part purchased by him. [Taylor on Landlord and Tenant, See. 502; Carroll v. Ballance, 26 Ill. 10 .] But we do not agree with counsel for appellees as to all the consequences which they assume will flow from such merger. As we understand it, the merger of the term and extinguishment of the covenants as to appellant’s interest did not, and does not, at all affect the respective rights of appellees under the lease. As to them, and their several shares in the property, the lease and all its provisions are in force and effect just as though no merger or extinguishment had taken place, and will so remain as long as they continue to be owners of the reversion.””
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.