29 Tenn. App. 31 - Smith v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1996
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Mallory v. Hanaur Oil Works · 16 Tenn. App. 213 - Walgreen Co. v. Walton · Matthews v. Crofford · 7 Smith & H. 21 - Bloch v. Busch · Elder v. Epperson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A tenant’s failure to pay rent does not terminate or forfeit his tenancy, in the absence of a provision in the lease for such a forfeiture; and where there is such a provision, the landlord must make formal demand of the rent, unless such demand is waived by the lease or by act of the parties.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““No notice to quit need be given by the plaintiff to the defendant, other than the service of this warrant. ’ ’”
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.