Day v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 4 state decisions

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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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘•There is no proof in the case from which an inference can be legitimately drawn that tlie entry of defendant in error was by consent of her tenant, or under any arrangement with them. This being so, and the entry followed by continued possession which was inconsistent with tlie time assured to the •tenants under the lease, that possession amounted very clearly to an eviction. If she [the lessor] b.e regarded as entering on conditions broken,, that would signify an Intention to terminate the lease entirely. If she regarded tlie lease as still continuing, the right to rent was suspended dining the occupancy. In the absence of any evidence showing an understanding with Hie tenant, she liad no right to reassume possession whether the premises were vacant or not, if she designed to regard tlie lease as continuing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Mahler