Stacy v. Reams’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1953
5 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 Thompson v. Crains
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * their undertakings in the deed were joint. The instrument did not disclose upon what particular parts of the land the trees, or any proportion of them, were situated, and it would have been wholly impractical, therefore, for the tender to have been made to the several grantors in the proportions that the timber sold was situated upon their several different tracts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Case v. Stacey
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.