Rubens v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably 50 Ill. 2d 351 - Jack Spring, Inc. v. Little (1972), Jilek v. Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co. (1943)
4 federal appellate · 47 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 Palmer v. Meriden Britannia Co. · Keegan v. Kinnare · Hayner v. Smith · Mount Hope Cemetery Ass'n v. Weidenmann · Lynch v. Baldwin
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case at bar, the appellee covenanted to do certain things before the term of the lease began, and, while the appellant might have refused to enter upon the term until those things were done, yet inasmuch as he did enter upon the term and took possession and kept possession until the termination of the lease on October 15, 1902, he cannot refuse to pay rent for the failure of the landlord to do the things, which he agreed to do before the1 commencement of the term. Appellant, while refusing to pay rent, did not abandon the lease.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If he (the landlord) covenant to repair before the term commences, it may he the tenant might refuse to enter upon the term until the repairs were made, but having entered upon the term and received possession, he cannot abandon the lease and refuse to pay rent for the breach of any other covenant, except for quiet enjoyment. If the landlord fail to repair according to his covenant, the tenant may recoup the amount from the rent, or may sue upon the covenant.””
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.