Pearson v. Lafferty’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1982
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Landis v. McDonald · Harrison v. South Carthage Mining Co. · Williams v. Kirk · Bourland v. McKnight · Walker 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appears that the trend of judicial authority is to hold that a contract whereby one is allowed the use of land to cultivate, the owner to have a share of the produce for its use, will, in general, at least, create a tenancy in common in the growing crop; and this is said to be so, whether the agreement operates as a lease or a mere ‘cropping contract,’ ””
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.