Adkins v. Arsht’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1984
1 district · 2 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 Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · Johnston v. Standard Mining Co. · Patterson v. Hewitt · Felix v. Patrick · Hayward v. National Bank
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Irrespective of their exact meanings, the words ‘exception’ and ‘reservation’ have been used indiscriminately as synonymous in meaning, and courts quite generally have held that the legal intent will be determined, not by the word used, but by the purport indicated in the entire grant. [Citations.] ***. Even if ‘except’ be given its strict technical meaning, it is obvious that it was used to retain the oil and gas interests in [the grantor] as well as to protect [the grantor] under the warranty as to the coal rights which had been previously conveyed. *** Obviously the oil and gas existed and were a portion of the entire fee, and it was entirely proper to retain them by excepting them from the grant.” ( 50 F. Supp. 761, 764 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.