Martin v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1959
5 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 Cox v. Reed
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any interest in property may be deeded to vest immediately or in the future, but the deed must be effective as conveying some interest in the property. In other words, the maker in the deed must part with his jus disponendi of the property to extent of the deed. . . . Nothing was to take effect until after thé death of the signers of it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelly v. Covington
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.