Keller v. Ely’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1986
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Parman ex rel. Parman v. Lemmon · Hans v. Great Bend Brick & Tile Co. · Williams v. Vincent · Davis v. Plunkett
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally speaking, a deed is to be construed strictly against the grantor, and to confer upon the grantee the greatest estate that its terms will permit. Our statute, G. S. 1949, 67-202, provides: “ \ . . and every conveyance of real estate shall pass all the estate of the grantor therein, unless the intent to pass a less estate shall expressly appear or be necessarily implied in the terms of the grant.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fast v. Fast · Corbin v. Moser““. . . Briefly stated, that rule is a well-known maxim of construction to aid in ascertaining the meaning of a statute or other instrument, the doctrine being that where an enumeration of specific things is followed by some more general word or phrase, such general word or phrase is to be held to refer to things of the same kind with respect to a classification which immediately precedes it — that is to say, where general words follow particular words in an enumeration describing the subject matter, general words are construed to embrace only objects similar in nature to those enumerated by antecedent specific words.” (p. 701.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wulf v. Shultz““. . . [T]he general terms contained in the reservation must be deemed to embrace and include only those things similar in nature to those previously specifically enumerated — that is, oil, gas and kindred minerals. . . .” (p. 703.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wulf v. Shultz
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.