Watkins v. Wattle’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2000
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 Murphy v. Carron · Jones v. Linder · Millhouse v. Drainage District No. 48 of Dunklin County · Brooks v. Cooksey · Emery v. Brown Shoe Company
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 534.030 defines three distinct factual situations, or classes, which constitute “unlawful detainer.” The first class is the “hold-over tenant” class, the second (added in 1939) is the “hold-over employee” class, and the third is the “intruder class” (wrongful possession, without force, by disseisin). The distinction between the hold-over tenant and the intruder classes is discussed in Ray v. Blackman, 120 Mo.App. 497 , 97 S.W. 212 (1906), Barber v. Todd, 128 S.W.2d 290 (Mo.App.1939), and Bess v. Griffin, 234 S.W.2d 978 (Mo.App.1950). The relationship of landlord and tenant is unnecessary in actions under the “intruder class,” but a written demand for possession prior to the institution of the action is necessary in such actions. In actions involving the hold-over tenant class, no demand for possession is necessary but a landlord-tenant relationship must have existed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When any person willfully and without force holds over any lands, tenements or other possessions, after the termination of the time for which they were demised or let to the person, or the person under whom such person claims; or after a mortgage or deed of trust has been foreclosed and the person has received written notice of a foreclosure; or when premises are occupied incident to the terms of employment and the employee holds over after the termination of such employment; or when any person wrongfully and without force, by disseis-in, shall obtain and continue in possession of any lands, tenements or other possessions, and after demand made, in writing, for the delivery of such possession of the premises by the person having the legal right to such possession, or the person’s agent or attorney, shall refuse or neglect to vacate such possession, such person is guilty of an “unlawful detainer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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