Hodges v. Owings’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Chevy Chase Land Co. v. United States (1999), Harmon v. State Roads Commission (1966)
2 district · 28 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 Knotts v. Summit Park Co. · Brown v. Reeder · Glenn v. Davis · Zittle v. Weller · Logsdon v. Brailer Mining 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he word ‘grant,’ the phrase ‘bargain and sell,’ in a deed, or any other words purporting to transfer the whole estate of the grantor shall be construed to pass to the grantee the whole interest and estate of the grantor in the lands therein mentioned, unless there be limitations or reservations showing, by implication or otherwise, a different intent.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Both parties agree that if the language of a deed be doubtful, it shall he most strongly construed against the grantor, but as said in Zittle v. Weller, 63 Md. 190, 196 , 'this rule is to be resorted to, and relied on, only where all other rules of exposition fail to reach, with reasonable certainty, the intention of the parties.’ And as said in Maryland State Fair v. Schmidt, 147 Md. 613, 621 , 128 A. 365, 368 , 'to ascertain its true-meaning the situation of the parties and the circumstances attending the execution of the deed may be ‘Considered.’ ” Id. at 304.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No words of inheritance shall be necessary to create an estate in fee simple, but every conveyance of real estate shall be construed to pass a fee simple estate, unless a contrary intention shall appear by express terms or be necessarily implied therein.”
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.