Arrington v. Loveless’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In view of the admissions above referred to that are contained in defendant’s answer it was unnecessary upon the trial to offer proof as to the execution of or as to the terms of the lease. “On this point see 45 Tex.Jur.2d 526, Pleadings, Sec. 86, wherein it is said: ‘ . . .a party need not allege or prove facts that are pleaded and admitted by his adversary. . . ’ See also Manning v. Barnard, 277 S.W.2d 160 (Dallas, Tex.Civ.App., 1955, ref., n. r. e.). “It was not even necessary in order to get the benefit of those admissions to introduce defendant’s pleading into evidence. On this see 45 Tex.Jur.2d 526, Pleading, Sec. 86, for the following: ‘Since the office of pleadings is to define the issues to be tried, and since pleadings are matter of record as distinguished from matter of evidence, an adversary’s pleadings are not required to be introduced in evidence in order to obtain the benefit of any admissions therein.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phagan v. State Ex Rel. Eyssen

2. “A surrender of a lease, as that term is used in the law of landlord and tenants, is the yielding up by the tenant of the leasehold estate to the landlord so that the leasehold estate comes to an end by the mutual agreement of the landlord and tenant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kiehm v. Adams