Holmes v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2018
12 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 McCall v. Nettles · Henry v. White · Hardee v. Hardee · Carter Oil Co. v. Blair · Chastain v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'grant, bargain, sell and convey' " to the grantees, " 'their heirs and assigns, the following described real estate,' " which was followed by a description of property and a statement that " '[t]he grantor herein reserves to her self and her heirs one half of the oil and all minerals that may be discovered in said land.' " Our supreme court determined, in pertinent part: "[T]he [lower] court held that where there is an inconsistency between the granting clause containing words of inheritance and statements in the habendum or clauses subsequent to the granting clause, the granting clause in the deed will prevail and the clause containing the reservation of mineral rights will be considered void. "We do not take this view of the situation. Considering the entire deed we believe that a clear intention appears in the deed for the grantor to reserve certain mineral rights in the property. This is true although the granting clause contains words of inheritance. Accordingly there is no necessity to invoke any arbitrary rules of construction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[t]he grantor herein reserves to her self and her heirs one half of the oil and all minerals that may be discovered in said land.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hubbard v. Cason“'their heirs and assigns, the following described real estate,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hubbard v. Cason
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.