26 Cal. App. 485 - Merchant v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1967
14 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 Bissell v. . the New York Central R.R. Company · Champlin v. Pendleton · 7 Cal. App. 487 - Barnes v. Daveck
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not think that where the land as described in fact abuts upon a street or highway, though the street or highway be not mentioned as the boundary, the grant necessary [sic] shows ‘a different intent’ ” (referring to the provisions of section 1112) (emphasis added), and concluded that (p. 490) “. . . the case in fact turns upon the effect of the deeds above considered and the evidence in respect of the intention of the grantors.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Speer v. Blasker
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.