Brown v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 state decisions

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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The possession of the land is with the owner as against the mere cropper, because a mere cropper is in the status of an employee, one hired to work the land and to be compensated by a share of the crop-raised, with the right only to ingress and egress on the property. This is not so as to-the tenant, who has a substantial right in-the land itself for c. fixed time.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cessac v. Leger

2. “"`A casual reading of our landlord and tenant law demonstrates that one of the essentials of a valid leasing of premises whereby the relation of landlord and tenant is established, is that exclusive possession of the premises rightfully belonging to one party is transferred to another, and thus the relation of landlord and tenant is established.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 269 So. 2d 562 - WILSON WRHSE. CO. OF TEXAS, INC. v. Maryland Cas. Co.

3. “To create the relationship of landlord and tenant, no particular words are necessary, but it is indispensable that it should appear to have been the intention of one party to dispossess himself of the premises and of the other to occupy them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vallejo v. Pioneer Oil Co.