210 So. 2d 629 - Harris v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1993
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Shepard v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance · Skelly Oil Co. v. Cities Service Oil Co. · Salmen Brick & Lumber Co. v. Williams · Dortch v. Louisiana Central Lumber Co. · Westbrook v. Ball
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the deed must be read in the light of the circumstances surrounding the parties when it was executed; (2) that the construction should be upon the entire instrument, and each word and clause therein should be reconciled and given a meaning, if that can be reasonably done; (3) that the main document and that to which it refers must be construed together; (4) that if the wording of the deed is ambiguous, the practical construction placed thereon by the parties will have much weight in determining the meaning... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a construction is placed upon them that ... best comport[s] with the parties' intention appearing from the instrument itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the effect of conveying a fractional interest in the minerals in place”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.