Palmore v. Morris, Tasker & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Kedra v. City of Philadelphia (1978), Copfer v. Golden (1955)
2 district · 23 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 Grier v. Sampson · Godley v. Hagerty · McKenna v. Martin & William H. Nixon Paper Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘But this is not a letting of the land by a landlord to a tenant; it is an absolute sale, whereby the owner divests himself of title, and all right to possession, or of re-entry for repairs, or for any other purpose. Any future possession in face of his deed, unless there be an independent stipulation to the contrary, would be a palpable trespass; and with his surrender of possession all the duties incident to ownership, as to him, were at an end.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Copfer v. Golden““There may be a case where the grantor conceals from the grantee a defect in a structure, known to him alone, and not discoverable by careful inspection, that the owner would be held liable, though out of possession; * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.