Hull v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1835
Citation profile
2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2001
2 district · 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 Massie v. Watts · Shipp v. Miller's heirs
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But perhaps a more satisfactory criterion [than the preclusive effect of the deed] ... is the intent of [the grantor], if it can be ascertained. Did he intend to submit to the decision of the commissioners? or [sic] did he intend to reserve to himself his ancient claim, according to his deed from [the previous owner]. There is no evidence of any intention on the part of [the grantor] to retain any portion of the land, or any interest in it, after the conveyance ... nor is there any ground to infer such intent.... .... But a consideration still more decisive is, that it is apparent from all the deeds, that the parties understood, that precisely the same land was conveyed by all the descriptions adopted....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.