Baseball Publishing Co. v. Bruton’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Alexis v. McDonald's Restaurants of Massachusetts, Inc. (1995), Commercial Wharf East Condominium Ass'n v. Waterfront Parking Corp. (1990)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 55 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 Chadwick v. Covell · Cook v. Stearns · Wiseman v. . Lucksinger · Reynolds v. . Van Beuren · Roberts v. Lynn Ice 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is of the essence of a license [to enter private property] that it is revocable at the will of the possessor of the land.... The revocation of a license may constitute a breach of contract, and give rise to an action for damages. But it is none the less effective to deprive the licensee of all justification for entering or remaining upon the land.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he distinction between a lease and a license is the right of the possession of the land. If a contract confers exclusive possession of the premises or a portion thereof as against the whole world, including the owner, it is a lease. If it merely confers a privilege or permission to use or occupy under the owner, it is a license.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a lease conveys an interest in land, requires a writing to comply with the statute of frauds, and transfers possession, while a license merely excuses acts done by one on the land possession of another that without the license would be a trespass, and conveys no interest in the land[.]”
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.