Elliott v. Gentry’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
April 1991
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Powell v. Jones · Donahoe v. Rich · Rees v. Emmons Coal Mining Co. · F. B. Norman Co. v. E. I. duPont deNemours & Co. · Peoples Express, Inc. v. Quinn
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The burden is on the party relying on a surrender of a lease to prove it, and where it is to: be inferred from circumstances inconsistent with intention to .perform, the proof must be clear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Noce v. Stemen
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.