Griffiths v. . Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Clements v. Sannuti Et Ux. (1946), Miller v. Hoeschler (1905)
32 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 Ogden v. . Jennings · Rogers v. . Sinsheimer
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The description in the deed of the amount of land conveyed is minute and definite, even to a half inch, and the deed conveys ‘the buildings and im provements thereon.’ Does this language include the right to retain possession of this five feet in controversy while that western extension wall endures, and to use such wall as the eastern extension wall of the defendant’s house? It is the building and improvements on the land which is most accurately and minutely described that are conveyed. There is no suggestion of mistake of measurement in the amount of land intended to be conveyed, and yet a piece of land, five feet in addition to that which was actually conveyed, and out of a total of only twenty-two feet, is thus called for to furnish this easement to defendant’s premises. We think that the language conveys only that part of the building which is on the land described, and that no right, such as is claimed by the defendant, exists upon or in relation to the land not conveyed, and which belongs to plaintiff. Such, we think, is the clear intention to be deduced from the language used,' and from the situation of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.