Hindman v. Farren’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Easton v. Washington County Insurance (1957), United Refining Co. v. Jenkins (1963)
42 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 Slonaker v. P. G. Publishing Co. · Provident Life Trust Co of Philadelphia v. Mercer County Ky · McCormack v. Jermyn · Robinson v. Stover · Camden Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Eavenson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhere there is any doubt or ambiguity as to the meaning of the covenants in a contract or the terms of a grant, they should “receive a reasonable construction, and one that will accord with the intention of the parties; and, in order to ascertain their intention, the court must look at the circumstances under which the grant was made.” “It is the intention of the parties which is the ultimate guide, and, in order to ascertain that intention, the court may take into consideration the surrounding circumstances, the situation of the parties, the objects they apparently have in view, and the nature of the subject-matter of the agreement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When .. . the owner of lands grants the right to another to remove minerals beneath the surface thereof, ordinarily he receives “rents or royalties”; when he permits minerals from adjoining lands to be transported over the surface of his own lands, he receives “wheelage” for the privilege granted. The consideration in the first instance is the marketing of his minerals, but in the latter case, as he has no interest in the removal of such foreign minerals, the consideration is the hindrance to his full enjoyment of the surface of his lands.”
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.