Lacey v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 1999
24 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 Southern Railway Co. v. Hayes · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Hall · Beaufort Land & Investment Co. v. New River Lumber Co. · Garrett v. Sewell · Garrett v. Sewell
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] landlord who has granted this possession to a tenant for a definite term has no immediate right of possession and cannot maintain the action [for trespass] during such term.”
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.