Carlin v. Ritter’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 1985 · most notably 29 Cal. 2d 385 - Trabue Pittman Corp. v. County of Los Angeles (1946), Spencer v. Commercial Co. (1902)
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it was the intention of the parties in this or any other similar case, that the right to remove fixtures should continue, nothing was easier than to insert in the lease a clause to that effect; and it- seems to us reasonable to infer from the absence of such a clause that it was their intention that this right should no longer continue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Here the tenancy by the year was put an end to at a definite period by the notice to quit, and the tenant was left in no uncertainty as to when his term would expire.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Welsh v. McDonald
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.