Totton v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 1967
4 federal appellate · 19 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 Associated Oil Co. v. Hart · Aetna Insurance Co., of Hartford v. Brannon · Hoffman v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · San Antonio National Bank v. McLane · Gibbs v. Barkley
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The object of construing any deed is to ascertain the intention of the parties as expressed in the deed itself and such intention expressed therein is of controlling importance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellis v. Waters
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.