Gorman v. Ratliff’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2018
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 55 Cal. 2d 597 - Jordan v. Talbot · Floro v. Parker · Hultsman v. Carroll · Vinson v. Flynn · Bass v. Boetel & Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This concept has evolved until now the modern doctrine requires a landlord, otherwise entitled to possession, upon the refusal of the tenant to surrender the leased premises, to `resort to the remedy given by law to secure it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duhon v. State“no entry by a landlord onto property occupied by another is given by Act 615, except by first resorting to legal process. Accordingly, self-help action is prohibited [under Arkansas law].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to compel people `to the more pacific course of suits in courts, where the weak and strong stand upon equal terms.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duhon v. State
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.