Staples v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
4 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably H. E. Fletcher Co. v. Commonwealth (1966), M. S. Kelliher Co. v. Town of Wakefield (1964)
4 district · 29 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 Menici v. Orton Crane & Shovel Co. · Barnes v. City of Springfield · Gorey v. Guarente · Leavitt v. Maykel · Harrington v. Anderson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] tenancy at sufferance is readily changed into a tenancy at will by express or implied agreement of the parties.... [Continued] payment and acceptance of rent [on the regular rent day], standing alone, are prima facie proof of the creation of a tenancy at will....”
2 later decisions 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.