Derham v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2005
5 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 American National Bank v. Madison · Hornet v. Dumbeck
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there are two repugnant descriptions in a deed, ‘the court will look into the surrounding facts and will adopt the description which is most definite and certain and which in the light of the surrounding circumstances can be said to effectuate most clearly the intention of the parties.’ — 2 Devlin on Deeds, sec. 1038; Wade v. Deray, 50 Calif. 376. “In construing a deed, the object is to discover and effectuate the intention of the parties to it. While that intention is to be gathered from the language and words of the deed, it should be read in the light of the surrounding circumstances at least when it is ambiguous * * *. “When a particular of a description is plainly false, that particular should be rejected, and if enough remains to locate the land, the deed is effective . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wallace v. Hirsch
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.