Harding v. Larkin’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably 282 Ill. App. 3d 129 - Millers Mut. Ins. of Ill. v. Graham Oil Co. (1996), Pelouze v. Slaughter (1909)
42 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The action to recover mesne profits, is by trespass quare clausum fregit, and only lies after a recovery in ejectment, to recover for the damage sustained by the owner in consequence of the wrongful entry and occupancy of the land from the time the entry was made until the recovery is had” (emphasis added)). Millers Mutual’s construction of the term”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The attorneys’ fees in this suit [to recover damages for breach of covenants in the deed] are not, of course, recoverable as damages, but simply the costs and fees in the ejectment suit in which the eviction was had.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.