Ramey v. Stephney’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1989 · most notably Burns v. Bastien (1935), Melton v. Sneed (1940)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Barker v. Campbell-Ratcliff Land Co. · Gladys City Oil, Gas & Manufacturing Co. v. Right of Way Oil Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Another cardinal rule of construction is that the grant must be construed to effect the plain intention of the grantor, and if that intention is plain, it controls1, regardless of inconsistent clauses which are to be reconciled by the intent deduced from the entire instrument.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herren v. Herren
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.