Combs v. Hounshell’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2014
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Nanny v. Vaughn · Cox v. Colossal Cavern Company · Atkins v. Baker · Flynn v. Fike · Henderson v. Mack
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"So in conclusion we must concede that the distinction between a `conveyance' to a third party and a `reservation' in his favor is tenuous and artificial and has long outlived the reason for its existence in the first place. * * * In a future case involving what is intended to be a conveyance over of some interest such as an easement, or even a life estate, but is inartfully couched in terms of reservation or exception in favor of the third party, it may be proper that we consider abolition of the distinction, * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Townsend v. Cable“words of exception or reservation are not words of grant and are ineffective to convey a right or interest to a stranger to a deed”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Townsend v. Cable
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.