Combs v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1957 · most notably Palmateer v. Reid (1927), Howard v. Gross (1941)
23 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 May v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. · Hall v. Wright · Ratliffe v. Marrs · Wilson v. Moore · Ratliffe v. Ratliffe
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the intention of the parties can be ascertained, it must control. The intention is gathered from the entire instrument, giving proper effect if it can be done to each and every part, and considering all of the clauses without reference to the place at which they appear in the instrument. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Combs v. Combs““To have and .to hold the land hereby conveyed unto the said Preston Eversole during his time of life, and at his death to be equally divided between his heirs. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Combs
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.