Fondren v. Redwine’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2018
7 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 BCI Corp. v. Charlebois Construction Co. · Manor Square, Inc. v. Heartthrob of Kansas City, Inc. · Watson v. HEC Contractors · Tompkins v. Kusama · McNamee v. Garner
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any person shall cut down, injure or destroy or carry away any tree placed or growing for use, shade or ornament, or any timber, rails or wood standing, being or growing on the land of any other person ... or other substance or material being a part of the realty, or any roots, fruits or plants, or cut down or carry away grass, grain, corn, flax or hemp in which such person has no interest or right, standing, lying or being on land not such person’s own, ... the person so offending shall pay to the party injured treble the value of the things so injured, broken, destroyed or carried away, with costs. Any person filing a claim for damages pursuant to this section need not prove negligence or intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is required ... that there be an intentional act; i.e. an intent to enter the land which results in the trespass.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Mason
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.