Williams v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1991
3 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 Tewksbury v. Magraff · Jones v. . Reilly · Franklin v. Merida · Whiting v. . Edmunds · The People Ex Rel. Ainslee v. . Howlett
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In 16 R. C. L. 1186, § 708, it is clearly pointed out that, in unlawful detainer proceedings, the tenant can only avail himself of the defenses that the relationship of landlord and tenant does not exist by reason of the invalidity of the lease under which the landlord claims, or that there is no lease or contract to pay rent of any kind, or that no rent is past due.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunbar v. Hansen““As a matter of course, in this jurisdiction the tenant may, at any time, institute an action in a court of equity to determine his rights to the premises in question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunbar v. Hansen
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.