Richards v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2016
12 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 Mulvane v. Rude · Childress v. Lake Erie & Western Railroad · Chandler v. Cheney · Thornburg v. Wiggins · Dickson v. Van Hoose
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A deed is to be construed as a whole and effect is to be given to each and every part if possible. Where the intention of the parties as to the kind of estate conveyed is clearly expressed, such intention will be given effect, regardless of the technical rule that the granting clause will prevail over other portions of the deed which tend to modify or curtail the estate conveyed. But where there is irreconcilable conflict between the granting clause and the habendum or other portions of the deed, and the intention is thereby rendered doubtful, the granting clause will prevail over other parts of the deed. Adams v. Merrill (1910), 45 Ind. App. 315, 319, 328 , 85 N. E. 114 , 87 N. E. 36 ; Doren v. Gillum (1894), 136 Ind. 134, 138 , 35 N. E. 1101 ; Edwards v. Beall, supra; Wilkins v. Young, supra; Case v. Owen (1894), 139 Ind. 22, 24 , 38 N. E. 395 , 47 Am. St. 253; 1 Jones, Conveyancing §568; Hopkins v. Hopkins (1908), 114 S. W. 673 ; Dickson v. Van Hoose (1908), 157 Ala. 459 , 47 South, 718 , 19 L. R. A. (N. S.) 719, 8 R. C. L. 1043 §§98-101.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pachter v. Gray
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.