Behrens v. Cloudy’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2012
14 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 Omaha v. Standard Oil Co. · The United States v. The Mayor Aldermen and Inhabitants of the Cities of Philadelphia and New Orleans · Tabler, Crudup & Co. v. Sheffiield Land, Iron & Coal Co. · Andrew v. Meyerdirck · Deffenbaugh v. Foster
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that no assignment of the lease or any part thereof should be valid without the written consent of the lessor, and an assignment in violation of such covenant would confer no rights on the assignee.”
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.