Berman v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2023
10 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 Roberson v. Pioneer Gas Co. · Smith v. Sun Oil Co. · Bond v. Midstates Oil Corp. · Audubon Hotel Co. v. Braunnig · J. F. Auderer Laboratories, Inc. v. Deas
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.
“"[N]o action can be maintained by the lessor against the undertenant, upon any covenant contained in the lease, since there is neither privity of estate nor of contract between himself and the undertenant."”
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.