Bascom v. Maxey’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1985
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Porter v. Warner-Caldwell Oil Co. · Echolustee Oil Co. v. Johnston · Brock v. Warner-Caldwell Oil 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In construing a deed, the court must ascertain the grantor’s intention from the entire instrument without undue reference to any part; and technical meaning of words must be held to give way to the manifest intent of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rose v. Cook
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.