Lovett v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Morehead v. Harris (1964), WACHOVIA BANK & TRUST COMPANY v. Miller (1955)
48 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 Eason v. Spence · Poole v. . Gentry · Lamb v. . Lamb · Sprinkle v. City of Reidsville · Benton v. . Alexander
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that judicial acts and duties have been duly and regularly performed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Election is the obligation imposed upon a party to choose between two inconsistent or alternative rights or claims in cases where there is a cledr indention of the person from whom he derives one that he should not enjoy both, the principle being that one shall not take any beneficial interest under a will, and at the same time set up any right or claim of his own, oven if legal and well founded, which would defeat or in any way prevent the full effect and operation of every part of the will.” (Italics ours)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A grantor cannot convey to his grantee an estate of greater dignity than the one he has.”
1 later decision 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.