Hinckley v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1996
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Bond v. Chapman · Hart v. Pratt · Quandt v. Smith
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plain reading of the statute is that the court or jury shall assess the damages, and find the amount of rent due, if the action is prosecuted for the nonpayment of rent, and that the court shall thereupon double the amount of the damages and rent. . . . The penalty is not imposed for the nonpayment of rent, as the defendants suggest. If it were, the act could not be sustained on constitutional grounds. The penalty is imposed for the refusal to surrender possession on the termination of the tenancy, whether it be terminated by the terms of the lease for nonpayment of rent, or for any of the other causes specified in the statute. The question is not a new one in this court. Double damages were allowed in Hart v. Pratt, 19 Wash. 560 , 53 Pac. 711 ; Quandt v. Smith, 28 Wash. 664 , 69 Pac. 369 , and Bond v. Chapman, supra. Each of these cases was for an unlawful detainer, and in neither case was the tenancy terminated for the nonpayment of rent.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The jury, or the court if the proceedings be tried without a jury, shall also assess the damages occasioned to the plaintiff by any forcible entry, or by any forcible or unlawful detainer, alleged in the complaint and proved on the trial, and if the alleged unlawful detainer be after default in the payment of rent, find the amount of any rent due, and the judgment shall be rendered against the defendant guilty of the forcible entry, forcible detainer, or unlawful detainer for twice the amount of damages thus assessed and of the rent, if any, found due. . . .””
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.