Chrisman v. Dennis’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1971
6 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 Hatcher v. Virginia Mining Company · Kentucky Real Estate Board v. Smith · McKinney v. Raydure
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is generally recognized that where a deed contains both a general and a particular description and contains no language indicating which description shall prevail, the general must yield to the particular. Hatcher v. Virginia Mining Co. et al., 214 Ky. 193 , 282 S.W. 1102 . On the other hand, where it is manifest from the entire instrument that the general description, in view of the facts and circumstances surrounding the transaction, most clearly reflects the intention of the grantor, the construction will be adopted which gives it full effect. McKinney et al. v. Raydure, 181 Ky. 163 , 203 S.W. 1084 .””
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.