Baucum v. George’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 1980 · most notably McMillan v. Aiken (1920), Minge v. Green (1912)
40 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 Herbert v. Hanrick · Sharpe v. Orme · Nelson v. Iverson · McBride v. Thompson · Clements v. Pearce
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ambiguous descriptions of land in conveyances are open to explanation by parol. Tbe familiar illustration given in the books is, when an estate is granted by the designation of Black-acre, parol evidence is received to identify the premises known by that name. ’ ’”
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.