Walker v. Rednalloh Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Bandera v. Donohue (1950), Lamonica v. Bosenberg (1964)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 Samuels v. Ottinger · Pittsfield & North Adams Railroad v. Boston & Albany Railroad · Consumers' Ice Co. v. William H. H. Bixler & Co. · Hamlen v. Rednalloh Co. · Carlton Chambers Co. v. Trask
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Regardless of the precise analysis of the theories by which the lessee may be relieved of liability by an assignment, the principle is clear that an agreement between the lessor and the assignee materially varying the terms of the original lease will on one theory or another result in the termination of the lessee’s covenant to pay rent.... The lessee is not discharged, however, by variations which inure to his benefit_ Nor is the lessee discharged by agreements between lessor and assignee which may increase the liability of the lessee, but which are permitted by the terms of the original lease, to the benefits of which the assign-ee is entitled.’”
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.