Newton v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1937
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 Conradt v. Sixbee
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Concede that, in the absence of any agreement in respect to the possession, one tenant in common of a chattel cannot claim exclusive control or possession of such property, yet it is perfectly competent for the parties to change this rule of law. They may surely agree that one tenant shall have the possession to the exclusion of his cotenant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kuenzi v. Leisten
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.