Powell v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably 139 Ind. App. 27 - Northern Indiana Steel Supply Co. v. Chrisman (1965), Hirsch v. Merchants National Bank & Trust Co. (1976)
25 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 Grommes v. St. Paul Trust Co. · Heller v. Dailey · Jordan v. Indianapolis Water Co. · Bonetti v. Treat · Barnes v. Northern Trust Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... But, when there is an express covenant to pay the rent, the mere breaking of the privity of the estate will not release the lessee... ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘There must be an assent of the landlord to the assignment and the acceptance of the subtenant by the landlord with the intent to substitute him in the place of the original lessee.’ ... By merely collecting rent . . ., the landlord does not discharge the original lessee who is bound by an express promise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[In the absence of a stipulation releasing a lessee who has assigned his lease....”
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.