Stephens v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 1954
4 federal appellate · 18 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 Tennis Coal Co. v. Sackett · Attebery v. Blair · Lange v. Waters · Bowling v. Breathitt Coal, Iron & Lumber Co. · Steele v. Bryant
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Uncertainty or vagueness of description renders a reservation void, unless there is something in the exception, deed, or evidence whereby it can be made sufficiently certain. Uncertainty of location can, however, in a proper case, be cured by the grantor’s election within a reasonable time, followed by acts in pais.””
1 later decision 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.