Boyd v. . Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1965
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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever the former doctrine may have been the courts do not now regard with favor the application of such technical rules as will defeat the obvious intention of the parties to a deed, it being an elementary rule of construction that their intention as expressed in the deed shall prevail unless it is repugnant to the terms of the grant or is in conflict with some canon of construction or some settled rule of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As a rule if there are repugnant clauses in a deed the first will control and the last will be rejected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. . Shields“to Pleas Clodfeler, his children, their heirs, and then to his grandchildren forever”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williamson v. . Cox
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.