Guyer v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 1981 · most notably Smith v. Bangham (1909), In Re Estate of Frayser (1948)
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Willard v. Tayloe · Brown v. Slee · Hamilton v. Harvey · State ex rel. Chase v. Rogers · Estes v. Furlong
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A deed or other written contract is not void for uncertainty in a description of the land sold or conveyed if, from the words employed, the description can be made certain by extraneous evidence of physical conditions, measurements or monuments referred to in the deed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rogers v. Lippy
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.