Powell v. Orphanage’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2006
21 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 Whitaker & Fowle v. Lane · Kanawha-Gauley Coal & Coke Co. v. Sharp · Levine v. Levine · Vaughan v. Mayo Milling Co. · Rector v. Hancock
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the lease showing an intent on the part of the lessee to be bound to make repairs except the covenant that he”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moses v. Cooper“The statute says that this covenant did not bind the lessee to repair or rebuild if he was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moses v. Cooper“will leave the premises in good repair, ordinary wear and tear excepted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moses v. Cooper
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.