Jackson v. Reeter’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2022
6 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 Dudding v. Hill · McNair v. Schwartz · Hadley v. Morrison · Fender v. Rogers · 142 Ill. App. 46 - W. C. Walsh & Co. v. Taylor
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only statutory enactment that changes this common-law rule is section 1 of Chapter 80, Rev. St. (J & A 7039), which provides: `That the owner of lands, his executors or administrators may sue for and recover rent therefor, or a fair and reasonable satisfaction for the use and occupation thereof, by action of debt or assumpsit, in any court of competent jurisdiction, in any of the following cases:' then follows a list of five conditions upon which such recovery may be had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ppellee was not the owner of the land occupied by appellant, or of any estate in it while he was in possession. Nor did he recognize [appellee] as having any right, title or interest in it. He held it adversely to [appellee].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“one must be the owner of some estate in the premises and the possession of the other must not be under claim of title or adverse to that of the owner or under an agreement that he need not pay rent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.