Boggs v. Eaton’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 525 So. 2d 746 - UHS-Qualicare, Inc. v. GULF COAST COM. HOSP., INC. (1987), 557 So. 2d 780 - Harrison County v. City of Gulfport (1990)
33 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 Mississippi Power & Light Co. v. Walters · Capital Transport Co. v. Segrest · Collier v. King · Ouber v. Campbell · 317 So. 2d 47 - Ludlow Corp. v. Arkwright-Boston Mfrs. Mut. Ins. Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ascertaining the intention of the parties from the language of the instrument, the grant or reservation should be so construed as to carry out that intention, and, in case of ambiguity or doubt, a grant or reservation of an easement ordinarily will be construed in favor of the grantee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the chancellor is manifestly wrong in basing his decision upon the facts, then this Court will reverse, otherwise, we will affirm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This rule does not apply [to] questions of law.”
2 later decisions 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.