Cobb v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 101 state decisions

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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is contended that Logan never became the tenant of Robertson, and was therefore never the tenant of Cobb, because Robertson never consented to the assignment to Logan of Willard and Sorelle’s lease. A contract of leasing or renting is not essential to the holding possession by one for another. If the tenant enter under the title of another, and hold by permission or at sufferance, he is estopped to deny such title, and the possession, in law, is that of the owner. The authorities to be cited abundantly show this. The nature of the arrangement by which the possession is taken or held is immaterial to such an inquiry as this. Willard and Sorelle held under lease from Robertson, and not only they, but all who entered under them, were subject to the estoppel, and became the tenants of the lessor and his vendees, and so continued as long as they were permitted to remain. Whatever may have been the other rights of the landlord and tenants as between themselves, the possession, while it was permitted to last, was that of the landlord.’’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sanders v. Worthington