Ewing v. Trawick’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2000
6 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 Burns v. Bastien · McAfee v. Harden · Case v. Case
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A cardinal rule in construing a deed is ascertaining the true intent of the makers, as that intent may be discerned from the instrument itself, taking it all together, considering every part of it and viewing it in the light of the circumstances surrounding the makers at the time of its execution; and their later acts in connection therewith may be considered in arriving at their intention. Case v. Case, Okl.Sup., 252 P.2d 432 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lahman v. Bassel“"The terms `reserving' and `excepting' are used interchangeably in deeds, and their technical meaning will give way to the manifest intent, even though the technical term to the contrary is used."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lahman v. Bassel
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.