Prout v. Roby’s Empirical Analysis
82 U.S. 471 · 1872
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1976 · most notably Great Northern Railway Co. v. Merchants Elevator Co. (1922), Great Northern Ry Co v. Merchants' Elevator Co
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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 Pelham v. Way
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a settled rule at the common law, that where a right of reentry is claimed on the ground’ of forfeiture for the non-payment of rent, there must be proof of a demand of the precise sum due, at a convenient time before sunset on the day when the rent is due, upon the land, in the most notorious place of it, though there be no person on the land to pay.”
2 later decisions 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.