Hynson v. Jeffries’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 2016
3 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 525 So. 2d 746 - UHS-Qualicare, Inc. v. GULF COAST COM. HOSP., INC. · 501 So. 2d 416 - Cherry v. Anthony, Gibbs, Sage · Pace v. State Ex Rel. Rice · 593 So. 2d 40 - Simmons v. Bank of Mississippi · Martin, Etc. v. Eslick
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.
“It is settled beyond controversy with reference to coal mines that a life tenant has no interest in or right to open and work new mines not in operation at the time he becomes vested with the estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Clear, unambiguous instruments must be construed as written.... [P]arties obviously disagree over ... meaning, but that fact alone does not render ... instruments ambiguous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'entitled to enjoy the land in the same manner as it was enjoyed before the creation of the life estate.”
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.