Combs v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2016
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 Childers v. York · Cooper v. Williamson · Arthur v. Humble · Hatcher v. Virginia Mining Company · Perry v. Eagle Coal Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the merchantable timber standing or being on all those certain seven (7) adjacent parcels or tracts of land, situate, lying and being in Letcher County, State ■of Kentucky, on the waters of Big Cowan and Little Cowan Creek, tributaries of the North Fork of the Kentucky River, and being the same tracts of land which were conveyed to the said parties of the first part by Altemus Consolidated Coal Company by deed dated March 12, 1924, of record in the Office of the Clerk of Letcher County Court, Kentucky, in Deed Book No. 49, page 104, to which reference is hereby made for a more definite and particular description of the said lands and timber.””
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.