Dyer v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1986
7 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 Frederick v. Goodbee · Conservative Homestead Ass'n v. Conery · S. D. Moody & Co. v. Sewerage & Water Board · Conservative Homestead Ass'n v. Flynn · Miller v. White
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, after the lease of a predial estate has expired, the farmer should still continue to possess the same during one month without any step having been taken, either by the lessor or by a new lessee, to cause him to deliver up the possession of the estate, the former lease shall continue subject to the same clauses and conditions which it contained; but it shall continue only for the year next following the expiration of the lease.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Petitioners aver that they have been informed that W.M. and A.D. Goodson have died and the said W.P. Wilson moved from said premises and placed his son, Donald B. Wilson, in possession of said premises, and that Donald B. Wilson has now moved from said premises, leaving Robert W. Goodson, a nephew of W.P. Wilson, and son and heir at law of W.M. and A.D. Goodson; in possession of said property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dyer v. Wilson“For instance, if a lessee under a two-year lease holds undisturbed possession of the premises for one month after the stipulated term, such lease shall continue for the year following the expiration; thereafter, if an additional month’s possession is enjoyed, a continuance for another one year period endures; and so on from year to year ...”
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.