Corlett v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Radke v. Union Pacific Railroad Company (1959), Wynn v. Sklar & Phillips Oil Company (1973)
27 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 Burns v. Bastien · McCall v. Nettles · Mitchell v. Espinosa · 62 W. Va. 167 - Toothman v. Courtney · Paxton v. Benedum-Trees Oil Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to the effect that the definition of the word used will not control, but that the word will be given a fair and reasonable interpretation looking to the intention of the parties. 23 Am.Jur.2d Deeds § 274. Our Supreme Court has declared that the modern conception of conveyancing looks to the intent of the grantor from a consideration of the entire instrument, and when that intent is ascertained,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an exception may be construed as a reservation, and vice versa.”
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.