Kettler v. Gandy’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1990
8 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 Dickson v. Van Hoose · Henry v. White · McCombs v. Stephenson · Libby v. Winston · Hardee v. Hardee
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We think the clear meaning of the deed, without applying the arbitrary rules of construction as were used in Wright v. Smith, 257 Ala. 665 , 60 So.2d 688 , and Henry v. White, 257 Ala. 549 , 60 So.2d 149 , is that the fee was conveyed to Myrtle Brazil, subject to be divested if she married."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilkins v. Ferguson“"`It is agreed and understood that this deed conveys the house and lot described above to said Myrtle Brazil as long as she may remain single and when she should marry then the property shall be divided between my children.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilkins v. Ferguson
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.