Isman v. Hanscom’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1970 · most notably Third National Bank & Trust Co. v. Lehigh Valley Coal Co. (1945), McClintock & Irvine Co. v. Ætna Explosives Co. (1918)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The important and controlling question in this case arises out of the construction of the lease between the parties.' The question of trade or tenant fixtures does not enter into the case, and hence need not be considered. The lease, which is the contract between the parties, determines the ownership of the property in question, and hence the rights of the parties thereto depend entirely upon the proper interpretation of the instrument. If the lease had been silent as to the ownership of the various items of property in dispute, then it would have been necessary to determine whether the property was trade fixtures, and if so, to whom- it belonged — to the landlord or the tenant. When, however, a landlord and tenant stipulate in their lease as to the ownership of chattels which may be placed upon the demised premises by the tenant, the stipulation will be enforced regardless of what might be the rights of thq parties at common law. In such cases, the contract is the law made by the parties themselves, and that must determine their rights. * * * “As said above, the rights of the parties in this litigation depend upon the interpretation of the contract. We are clear that the structures erected on the demised premises or the chattels installed therein by the defendants are ‘alterations, additions, and improvements,’ within the terms of the lease, and as such belong to the plaintiff, the landlord, at his option. These words are of broad significa tion, and are sufficiently compre”
2 later decisions 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.