Fanning v. Doan’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1958
15 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 Bone v. Tyrrell · Chew v. Keller · Waddell v. Waddell · Clarkson v. Clarkson · Maguire v. Moore
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The main purpose in the construction of deeds, as of other contracts, is to effectuate the intention of the parties, and little aid can be derived from precedents or technical rules. Every deed must be construed for itself, in the light of that general and paramount rule which requires ‘that the intention of the parties is to be ascertained by considering all the provisions of the deed as well as the situation of the parties, then give effect to such intention, if practicable, when not contrary to law.’ ” (2 Devlin on Deeds, sec. 836.) “The intention of the parties is gathered from the language of the deed, as such language is explained by the attendant circumstances and the relation of the parties, and must control.” (Fletcher et al. v. Tyler et al., 92 Ky. 145 , 36 Am. St. 584, 17 S. W. 282 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.