Ream v. Fugate’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1964
16 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 McRae v. Stillwell, Millen & Co. · Sallee v. Sallee · McNair & Wade Land Co. v. Adams · Board of Councilmen v. Capital Hotel Co. · McElroy v. Pope
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.
““In many jurisdictions it is held that an agreement giving a purchaser a perpetual right to have the timber remain on the land is so unreasonable in nature that no contract will be construed as having that effect unless it is clearly manifest that such was the intention of the parties. * * * Since a sale of the timber by the owner of land giving the purchaser a right in perpetuity for the timber to remain on the land virtually surrenders or destroys the right to the surface, the reason for such holding is at once apparent.””
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.