Bilby v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1935
4 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 City of Oklahoma City v. Hill · Chisholm v. Weise · Campbell v. Coonradt · Brown v. Feagins · Brennan v. Shanks
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the present ease it was the duty of the tenants to turn back the property to their landlord, the plaintiff in this action. The defendants, either by conniving with them or otherwise, prevented them from discharging this duty. They cannot retain a possession obtained in this manner. Such scrambles for the possession of real property are not to be encouraged by the law, as they tend to encourage 'breaches of the peace and cause people to resort to their own methods of obtaining their remedy instead of resorting to the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Montgomery v. Hill
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.