Percifield v. Rosa’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Lazy Dog Ranch v. Telluray Ranch Corp. (1998), Mitchell v. Espinosa (1952)
31 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 Enos v. Anderson · Millage v. Churchill · Million v. Botefur · Anderson v. Juanita Coal & Coke Co. · Thomas v. Dunnean
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Har-monization of all its provisions is the real object . with all language therein given force and effect if it can be done consistently, and when it can be done it should be construed as to give it effect rather than ineffectuality, and this applies equally to all the provisions of the deed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owens v. Tergeson“"* * * the paramount purpose in construing a deed is to ascertain the intention of the parties, and this is to be gathered from a consideration of the deed itself, if possible, rather than from isolated clauses found therein.";”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.