Stern v. Thayer’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1985
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Coe v. . Hobby · Amory v. Kannoffsky · Nelson v. Thompson · Bowen v. Haskell · Witman v. Watry
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As will be seen by this definition a surrender by operation of law can only be built up by invoking and relying on the doctrine of estoppel. The effect of a surrender of this character is to terminate the relation of landlord and tenant, and with it all of the obligations of the parties to that relation. When there arises a condition of facts, voluntarily assumed, incompatible with the existence of the relation of landlord and tenant between parties who have occupied that relation, there is a surrender of the lease by operation of law.... Any acts which are equivalent to an agreement on the part of a tenant to abandon and on the part of a landlord to resume possession of demised premises amount to a surrender of a term by operation of law.... “[TJhere must be some unequivocal act on the part of the landlord, which unmistakably evinces an intention on his part to terminate the lease, and the relationship of landlord and tenant. ” 57 N.W. at 329-30 . [Citations omitted; emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. SHORTLAND v. Larson
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.