Dennett v. Nesson’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2015
8 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 Newman v. Sussman · C. A. Spencer & Son Co. v. Merrimac Valley Power & Buildings Co. · Phelps v. Lowell Institution for Savings
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.
“[t]he mere acceptance of rent, in the circumstances here disclosed, falls far short of requiring a finding that a new tenancy at will was created[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[plaintiff's] tenancy at will ended in the fall of 1920, and thereafter his occupancy was that of a tenant at sufferance.”
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.