Wright v. MacDonnell’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Spencer v. Commercial Co. (1902), Rogers v. Fort Worth Poultry & Egg Co. (1944)
2 district · 68 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.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of a special stipulation to the contrary, fixtures placed upon the demised premises by the tenant are personal property, subject, however, to become parts of the realty, if not removed by him during the time allowed him by law for their removal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reader v. Christian“How long the plaintiff could have left the property upon the land without forfeiting his right to remove it, we need not determine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reader v. Christian
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.