Herron v. Gill’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1988
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Hadden v. Knickerbocker
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At common law, before the adoption of the statute of 8 Anne, c. 14, the landlord had no lien of any kind, but only a right to distrain” (citing authorities) ; that such statute is not in force in Illinois, “being of a date later than the fourth year of James I,” adopted in that state as limiting the period from which the rules of common law shall be applicable therein; and that “if ever in force here as a part of the laws of Virginia, it has been repealed by implication, or superseded by subsequent acts of our Legislature intended as revision of the whole subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The present statute, by giving the landlord a lien only upon crops growing or grown, by implication excludes the idea of a lien on any other property of the tenant.””
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.