Rankin v. Ridge’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
4
states following
January 1970
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Owens v. Lewis · White v. Foster · Southwestern Portland Cement Co. v. Williams · 62 Tex. Civ. App. 560 - Burkitt v. Wynne · Robbins v. Farwell
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any growth of the soil, even though not produced by annual labor, is personalty after its actual severance from the soil by the owner of the land, as in the case of timber cut by him. Furthermore, by the weight of authority, there may be constructive or legal severance of vegetable products while still growing or standing in the soil. Thus, it has been decided that, upon a conveyance by the landowner of growing trees apart from the land, they become personalty, and the same effect has been given to an exception of the trees on a conveyance of the land.””
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.