Douglas v. Snow’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1966
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 Basket v. Hassell · Ison v. Halcomb · Taylor v. Purdy · Rawlings v. McRoberts · Vaughn v. Metcalf
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.
““It is a fundamental rule that a valid deed must pass a present interest in the property conveyed to the grantees. It is not necessary that the right to possession or the enjoyment of the premises must pass with the conveyance, but it is essential that the grantees acquire at the time of the conveyance some legally recognizable right in and to the property. “As stated in Taylor v. Purdy, 151 Ky. 82 , at page 85, 151 S.W. 45 , at page 46: ‘The rule is that, if the instrument has no present operation, if it intended to vest no present interest, but only appoints what is to be done aftet the death of the maker, it is a testamentary instrument, and good only if made and proved as a will.’ ””
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.