Exum v. . Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1942
4 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the donee of a power to sell has an interest of bis own in the property affected by the power, and makes a conveyance of the property without reference to the power, the construction is that he intends to convey only what he might rightfully convey a without the power. When, however, the donee has no interest in the subject of the conveyance, but only a naked power, then the intent apparent upon the face of the instrument to sell would he deemed a sufficient reference to the power to make the instrument an execution of it, as the words of the instrument could not he otherwise satisfied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniel v. Felt“intent apparent upon the face of the instrument to sell”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tocci v. . Nowfall
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.