Beall v. White’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 382 · 1876
Citation profile
4 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2008 · most notably Central Trust Co of New York v. Kneeland (1891), Christian v. Atlantic N C R (1890)
4 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Dunham v. The Cincinnati Peru Railway Company · Bedford v. . Terhune · HASTINGS BY HASTINGS v. Hastings · Fowler v. Rapley
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] surrender [of a leasehold estate] is the yielding up the estate to the landlord, so that the leasehold interest becomes extinct by mutual agreement between the parties. It is either in express words[] by which the lessee manifests his intention of yielding up his interest in the premises, or by operation of law, when the parties without express surrender do some act which implies that they have both agreed to consider the surrender as made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Liens of the kind, arising under the act of Congress, attach at the commencement of the tenancy, or whenever personal chattels, owned by the tenant and subject to execution for debt, are brought on to the premises. Statutory liens have, without possession, the same operation and efficacy that existed in common-law liens where the possession was delivered.””
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.