Dutton v. Dutton’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1988
5 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 Berg v. Scully · Flannagan v. Dickerson · Hall v. Harrel
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Landlord and tenant is a phrase used to denote the familiar legal relation existing between the lessor and lessee of real estate. The relation is contractual and is constituted by a lease or agreement therefor of lands for terms of years; from year to year, for life or at will. . . .” (pp. 641, 642.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steele v. Latimer
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.