Loan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1954
4 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 Orrick v. St. Louis Public Schools · Tuttle v. Davis · Link v. Harrington
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But in our opinion the action was misconceived. If Smith is liable to plaintiff for rent, the suit should be an action for rent. In order to maintain an action of unlawful detainer the party defendant must be unlawfully detaining the premises at the time the action is brought. (Citing cases.) He must be in possession of the premises at that time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Carey
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.