Harris v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
129 U.S. 366 · 1889
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 9 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1983 · most notably American Construction Co v. Jacksonville T K W Ry Co Same (1893), Thompson v. Thompson (1913)
23 federal appellate · 9 district · 14 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 Farmington River Water Power Co. v. County Commissioners · People Ex Rel. Citizens' Gas-Light Co. v. Board of Assessors · People Ex Rel. S. U.H.R.R. Co. v. . Betts · People, Ex Rel. Smith v. . Com'rs, Etc., Brooklyn
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The'petition for-the writ of certiorari alleges, upon the oath of the petitioner,- that he is in the possession of the premises under a lease having nearly a year to run, with a privilege of extension for four years more; and that he has expended $15,000 in permanent improvements upon the leased property, of which he will be deprived, if the judgment of the justice of the peace, which he alleges to be void for want of jurisdiction, is not set aside by writ of certiorari. The reasonable inference from this is, that the possession of the premises,' with the right to use these improvements, throughout the lease and the extension thereof, would be worth more than $5000, showing that the matter in dispute is of sufficient pecuniary value to support the jurisdiction of this court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when forcible entry is made, or when a peaceable entry is made and the possession unlawfully held by force, or when possession is held without right, after the estate is determined by the terms of the lease by its own limitation, or by notice to quit, or otherwise,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Certiorari goes only to the jurisdiction. It does not go to any errors of judgment that may have been committed by the justice in the progress of the exercise of that jurisdiction.””
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.