Parsons v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1959
3 federal appellate · 9 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract does not provide in terms for forfeiture of the leased premises, or of the lessee’s right under the lease, in case he fails to keep the houses in proper repair, and as forfeitures are not favored in law, none will be implied. It follows that the lessee’s failure to keep the property in proper repair did not justify the lessor’s refusal to re-lease the property in accordance with the terms of the contract. On the contrary, if the lessee was under an implied duty to keep the property in repair, a question not now before us, his failure to perform that duty merely furnished the basis of a claim for damages, or of an action for equitable relief.””
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.