Highland v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Huntley & Huntley, Inc. v. Council of Oakmont (2009), Scientific Living, Inc. v. Hohensee (1970)
11 federal appellate · 41 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 Madden v. Glosztonyi Savings & Trust Co. · Smith v. Glen Alden Coal Co. · Borsch Estate · Burtt Will · Davis v. Pennsylvania Co., Etc.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`In absence of fraud, accident or mistake parole evidence is inadmissible to vary or limit the scope of a deed's express covenants and the nature and quantity of the interest conveyed must be ascertained by the instrument itself and can not be orally shown . . . Furthermore, in construing a deed . . . it is not what the parties may have intended by the language used but what is the meaning of the words.'"”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“If, in connection with a conveyance of land, there is a reservation or an exception of ‘minerals’ without any specific mention of natural gas or oil, a presumption, rebuttable in nature, arises that the word ‘minerals’ was not intended by the parties to include natural gas or oil. [ ... ] To rebut the presumption [ ... ] there must be clear and convincing evidence that the parties intended to include natural gas or oil within [minerals].”
3 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.