Comer v. Sheehan’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 1947 · most notably Prestwood v. Carlton (1909), Bank of New Brockton v. Dunnavant (1920)
50 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 Cooper v. Hornsby · English v. Key · Harris v. Miller · Allen v. Kellam · Scott v. Ware
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case must therefore be regarded as one of a lease made by a mortgagor, subject to the rights of the mortgagee, where the tenant has undertaken to pay the entire rent for the year in advance.””
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.