Bumpass v. Bond’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Paul v. Houston Oil Co. of Texas (1948), Bass v. Harper (1969)
5 federal appellate · 57 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 Curdy v. Stafford · Gibbs v. Barkley · Sullivan v. Fant
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * and I do hereby bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators to Warranty and Forever Defend all and singular the said premises unto the said W. O. Miller, his heirs and assigns, against every person whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same, or any part thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bass v. Harper“"If there be doubt as to what the intention of the parties was, due to the language of the deed, such doubt should be resolved against the grantor."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lebow v. Weiner
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.