Rees v. Lowy’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1995
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 Hicks v. Stone · Stern v. Thayer · Bowen v. Haskell
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nothing is better settled than that a surrender of a lease, or a release of a lessee, is not to be implied from the mere facts that a lessor assented to the assignment of the lease, and accepted rent from the assignee in possession.””
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.