High v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2020
10 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 68 Cal. 2d 864 - Gerhard v. Stephens · Austin v. Hallmark Oil Co. · House v. Jackson · Bogard v. Barhan · Seguin v. Maloney-Chambers Lumber Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"To summarize, if it is clear from the face of the writing that the description could apply with equal accuracy to more than one piece of property, it is unenforceable by reason of that fact. If the written description might possibly apply to but one piece of land, evidence is admissible to determine whether there is only one, or more than one, to which it might apply. If it can be determined with reasonable certainty that there is only one, the written description is sufficiently definite to meet the requirements of the statute of frauds although the complete description must be supplied from other sources. If, however, the extrinsic evidence demonstrates that there is more than one piece of property to which the description in the writing can accurately apply the description is ambiguous and the writing will be held insufficient."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The notice that will deprive the [subsequent purchaser] of priority can be either actual or constructive. Actual notice is direct knowledge of the outstanding interest. Constructive notice encompasses both notice chargeable under the recording statute ... and “inquiry notice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the exclusive right to hunt, fish and use the property.”
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.