Stanley v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 1971 · most notably 36 Cal. 2d 456 - Mello v. Weaver (1950), Watson v. Sutro (1890)
44 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Powell v. Clark · Jackson ex dem. Suffern v. McConnell · Blake v. Doherty · Howe v. Bass · Castro v. Gill
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is undoubtedly essential to the validity of a conveyance, that the thing conveyed must be described so as to be capable of identification, but it is not essential that the conveyance should itself contain such a description as to enable the identification to be made without the aid of extrinsic evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Crews v. Yenter
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.