Hensley v. Ramsey’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Britt v. Allen (1977), Anderson Ex Rel. Anderson v. Butler (1974)
3 federal appellate · 57 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 Cone v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. · Globe Liquor Co. v. San Roman · Mobley v. . Griffin · Shingleton v. State · Hege v. Sellers
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘No particular words are necessary to constitute a grant, and any words which clearly show the intention to give an easement, which is by law grantable, are sufficient to effect that purpose, provided the language is certain and definite in its terms.... The instrument should describe with reasonable certainty the easement created and the dominant and servient tenements.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““An appellate court, on finding that a trial judge should have granted a motion for directed verdict made at the close of all the evidence, may not direct entry of judgment in accordance with the motion unless the party who made the motion for a directed verdict also moved for judgment in accordance with Rule 50(b) (1) or the trial judge on his own motion granted, denied, or redenied the motion for a directed verdict in accordance with Rule 50(b)(1).” See Hensley v. Ramsey, 283 N.C. 714, 727-729 , 199 S.E. 2d 1, 8-9 (1973); 2 McIntosh, North Carolina Practice and Procedure § 1488.45 (Phillips Supp. 1970).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Color of title is generally defined as a written instrument which purports to convey the land described therein but fails to do so because of a want of title in the grantor or some defect in the mode of conveyance .... When the description in a deed embraces not only land owned by the grantor but also contiguous land which he does not own, the instrument conveys the property to which grantor had title and constitutes color of title to that portion which he does not own. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brittain v. Correll
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.