Winterfield v. Stauss’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 12 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““And, where the entry was obtained by stealth or stratagem, or without real violence, and the party entering evinced his purpose in having entered to have been the forcible expulsion of the party in possession, and it was followed up by actual expulsion by means of personal threats or violence or superior force, this has been held to amount to a forcible entry.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Simhiser v. Farber

2. ““There may be a forcible detainer although the entry is peaceable, but whoever retains a wrongful possession by keeping an unusual number of people or unusual weapons or threatening to do some bodily hurt to the former possessor if he dares to return is guilty of a forcible detainer, although no attempt is made to re-enter.” 19 Cyc. 1116, and cases there cited.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Munro