Graves v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably Porter v. Henderson (1919), Russell v. Carver (1922)
55 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 Sharp v. Hall · Dickson v. Van Hoose · Head v. Hunnicutt · Smaw v. Young · Webb v. Webb's Heirs
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the granting clause does not expressly designate the estate convoyed, and there is nothing in the other parts of the deed to indicate the estate intended to be conveyed, it would no doubt be a fee-simple estate, under the terms of section 3396 of the Code of 1907; but, if the other clauses indicated the nature and character of the estate conveyed, there would be no room for the operation of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slaughter v. Hall“It is also expressly understood that at the death of my said wife, all of the aforementioned property shall be equally divided between my lawful children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hacker v. Carlisle
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.