Duncan v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 1987 · most notably Rice v. Rice (1932), Dyer v. Siano (1937)
5 federal appellate · 19 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 Eastern Kentucky Mineral & Timber Co. v. Swann-Day Lumber Co. · Killebrew v. Murray · Kennedy v. Hicks · Soaper v. King · Cox v. Colossal Cavern Company
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These litigants are unable to agree whether this contract is a deed or a lease. That is to be determined, not by what these parties called this contract (both of the instruments evidencing this contract are denominated therein as deeds), but by what the contract did. * * * “If the effect of an instrument is to sever the estate and to vest the title to a certain part of the estate in another, it is a deed, no matter what the parties may call it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duncan v. Greene“on each ton of asphalt mined on this land after 50,000 tons had been taken therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Mann
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.