Whitcomb v. Brant’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1987
1 federal appellate · 14 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 Meeker v. Spalsbury · People's Bank v. . Mitchell · Smith v. Hunt · Hunt v. Gardner · Miller v. Dennis
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That there was no constructive surrender by operation of law is equally manifest, when it is recalled that such a surrender can be evolved from the acts of the parties only when the intent to accept a proffered surrender is made reasonably clear and unequivocal, or is the logical and necessary result of the landlord’s conduct. Meeker v. Spalsbury , 66 N. J. L. 60; Payne v. Hall, 82 Id. 362; Smith v. Hunt, 32 R. I. 326; 25 Am. Cas. 971; Dennis v. Miller, 68 N. J. L. 320; Jones v. Rushmore, 67 Id. 157.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“applied pro tanto to benefit the plaintiff, and to relieve him to that extent under the obligation of the covenant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.