Otis v. . Conway’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably 23 Cal. 2d 263 - Childs Real Estate Co. v. Shelburne Realty Co. (1943), Reisenwebers, Inc. v. Irving Trust Co. (1934)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 Matter of Application of Otis · Riggs v. Whitney
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think that the plaintiff’s claim to have the God-help rent paid to them is well founded. The lunatic’s estate is insolvent, and will pay but a small percentage upon the debts conceded to exist against it. Technically, rent is something which a tenant renders out of the profits of the land which he enjoys. Equitably, it is a charge upon the estate, and the lessee, in good conscience, ought not to take the profits thereof without a due discharge of the rent. (Citing cases.) The creditors of an insolvent lessee can have no moral or equitable claim to the profits issuing from leased land, until after the landlord’s claim for rent is satisfied. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowles v. Gantenbein
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.