Pearson v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1976
4 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 Murray v. . Harway · Collins v. . Hasbrouck · Conger v. . Duryee · Gordon v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance · Barrie v. Smith
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine seems to be well established that a tenant cannot, without the consent of the landlord, make material changes or alterations in a building to suit his taste or convenience, and, if he does so, it is waste. And any material change in the nature and character of the buildings made by the tenant is waste although the value of the property should be enhanced by the alterations.”
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.