Hess v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably 241 Pa. Super. 341 - Bollinger v. Palmerton Area Communities Endeavor, Inc. (1976), Onofrey v. Wolliver (1944)
26 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 Dreisbach v. Serfass · Riggs v. New Castle · Cable v. Cable · Krider v. Lafferty · Eckman v. Eckman
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[although a certain degree of formality is associated with deeds of real estate, and technical expressions of established meaning are generally employed to describe the interest to be created thereby, these are not essential. They are but guideposts to assist in the search for the true intention of the parties, which must ultimately control. Any words manifesting an intent to convey a particular estate are sufficient.”
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.