Bost v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 1991
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]here the grantor annexes words of explanation to the word ‘heirs’ indicating that he meant to use the term in a quali fied sense, as descriptio personarum or as a particular designation of certain individuals, ... the word may be treated as a term of purchase and not of limitation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Markum v. Wilson
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.