Collins v. Wheeless’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1998
15 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 Rich v. Swalm · Tebo v. Betancourt
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So far as concerns the possession and use of leased premises, the lease operates as a demise or conveyance of the property for a specific period of time (Rich v. Swalm, 161 Miss. 505, 516 , 137 So. 325 ), and no right of possession or use remains in the lessor.... The rule of law, therefore, logically follows and is well established that the landlord cannot maintain an action for an injury to the possession, as distinguished from the freehold, the right to sue being in the tenant.”
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.