Camp v. Milam’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co v. M/v Bayou Lacombe (1979), Mass Appraisal Services, Inc. v. Carmichael (1981)
71 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 City of Owensboro v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Wiseman v. . Lucksinger · Kirkland v. Kirkland · White v. Manhattan Railway Co. · Rhodes v. Otis
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Thus, when expenditures contemplated by the licensor have been made by the licensee, the license, having been acted upon so as to greatly benefit the licensor, is said to have been executed. An executed license, for reasons founded upon the equitable principle of estoppel, becomes irrevocable and confers upon the licensee a substantive equitable right in the property."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We further hold that this license of the Milams, although irrevocable, is by its very nature personal; and, being a personal right, it is not an interest which attaches to or runs with the land, nor *Page 494 can it be assigned, conveyed or inherited. Neither can the use of the lake under this license ever ripen into an easement by prescription, however long continued. Kirkland [v. Kirkland , 281 Ala. 42 , 44 , 198 So.2d 771 , 772 (1967)]."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In the absence of fraud or mistake, it is only where the instrument is doubtful of meaning, or its language ambiguous, that the court may look beyond the ‘four corners’ of the instrument to give clarity and specificity of meaning.””
2 later decisions 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.