Walker v. Tillis’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Mr. Justice Story [writing for the Court in Van Ness v. Pacard ] held that the question whether a given article is capable of removal as a trade fixture did not depend upon the form or size of the building, whether it had a brick foundation, or whether it was one or more stories high, but that the only question was whether it was designed for the purposes of trade ; that a tenant could erect a large, as well as a small, building; that he could erect it one or two stories high, and with such foundation as he chose; and that he would not be liable for waste in tearing down and removing a wooden building, with a stone cellar and a brick chimney, upon a lot of land which he had rented for 20 years for the purpose of carrying on the business of dairyman, and as a residence for his family and servants while so engaged."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 880 So. 2d 415 - LaFarge Bldg. Materials, Inc. v. Stribling

2. “"In Poole's Case , 1 C. 368 , decided in the year 1703, Holt, C.J., held that a tenant who was by trade a soap boiler, and had, for the convenience of his trade, put up vats, copper boilers, partitions, etc., and paved the back yard, had the right during the term of his lease to remove such fixtures. This is probably the first case that put the question of trade fixtures of a tenant upon a clear and satisfactory basis; and the rule was stated to be in favor of trade, and to encourage industry, and has ever since been regarded as the original ground for the exceptions as to trade fixtures made by tenants."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pipkin v. Sun State Oil, Inc.

3. “"It seems to be the settled rule that whenever such connections and additions are made solely as a means of staying or fastening the chattels in their places, to be used in the business of the tenant, without the intention to incorporate them into, or to make them a part of, the realty, they are not improvements of the demised premises within the meaning of such covenants of the lease."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 880 So. 2d 415 - LaFarge Bldg. Materials, Inc. v. Stribling