Adams v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 1998
6 federal appellate · 11 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 Miller, Et Vir v. Carr · Summerlin v. Orange Shores, Inc. · Griffith v. Hulion · Simmons v. Williford · Gentile Bros. v. Bryan
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * `Crops of fruit growing on trees, whether regarded as fructus naturales or fructus industriales, are in general parts of the realty, and unless reserved, go with the realty in its transfer. But by the acts and intention of an owner of land containing bearing fruit trees the growing fruit may be converted into personalty for purposes of sale.' Summerlin v. Orange Shores, Inc., 97 Fla. 996 , 122 So. 508 ; E.C. Fritz & Co. v. Eldridge, 129 Fla. 647 , 176 So. 539 ; Griffith v. Hulion, 90 Fla. 582 , 107 So. 354 ; Miller v. Carr, 137 Fla. 114, 188 So. 103 , and other cases support this view. "This conclusion is supported by the Crop Lien Act, Chapter 10279, Acts of 1925, and other acts which show conclusively the rule in this State to be that crops unseparated from the trees or vine are a part of the real estate till separated and follow the latter unless in terms reserved by the seller. We find some exception to this rule, but it is the one generally approved throughout the country. We do not overlook the contention of appellants that growing citrus fruits are never fructus naturales but must at all times be fructus industriales, because they require cultivation by hand. Much learned discussion has been given to this distinction but it has been tempered in this country by crop lien acts and by judicial interpretation. In Florida the fruit follows the realty unless in terms reserved."”
4 later decisions 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.