Powers v. Wheless’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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.

1. “A sharecropper is nothing more than a laborer or servant of the landlord or master * * *. The general duties of a sharecropper cannot be so construed as to make a sharecropper an agent generally of the landlord.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tedder v. Merchants & Manufacturers Insurance

2. “such a holding would open wide the door of agency and would be fraught with danger to landowners who sharecrop their lands.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. J. W. Green Co. v. Turbeville