Simpkins v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably 144 W. Va. 346 - Re: The Assessment of Shares of Stock of the Kanawna Valley Bank (1959), 175 W. Va. 296 - Sally-Mike Properties v. Yokum (1985)
29 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 Rumsey v. New York & New England R. R. · Frink v. Darst · Thorn v. Phares · Ruffner v. Hill · Clarke v. Figgins
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law of description in deeds is that of reasonable certainty only; `but the degree of certainty required is always qualified by the application of the rule that that is certain which can be made certain. A deed will not be declared void for uncertainty if it is possible, by any reasonable rules of construction, to ascertain from the description, aided by extrinsic evidence, what property it is intended to convey. The office of a description is not to identify the land, but to furnish means of identification.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harper v. Pauley
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.