Brown v. Cairns’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2004
17 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 Kansas Pacific Railway v. Mihlman · Edmonds v. Mounsey · Merrill v. Willis · Bohart v. Republic Investment Co. · Pierce v. Myers
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendants in error could not, by a failure to pay the rent, bring the lease to an end. The provision that the agreement should terminate on the failure of the lessees to perform those conditions of the lease which were obligatory to be carried out on their part is a covenant in favor of the lessors exclusively, and does not make the lease void, except at their option. To hold otherwise would permit a lessee to take advantage of his own default. The law is well settled on this point.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is a general rule that after a wrong has been committed it is the duty of the injured party to make reasonable efforts to prevent an increase or extension of the injury, and if he fails to do so he cannot recover for such increased injury.” (p. 588.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawson v. Callaway
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.