Nolan v. Otney’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 1979 · most notably Shaffer v. Smith (1916), 3 Kan. App. 2d 90 - Roberts v. Osburn (1979)
33 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 Uhl v. Ohio River Railroad · Hunt v. Hunt · Taft v. Taft · Love v. Blauw · Durand v. Higgins
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The real intent of the grantor being the object of our search, the inquiry is, not what do his words mean in strict legal contemplation, but in what sense did he use them — what idea did he employ them to convey. The decisions are not in harmony on the subject, but a well-defined tendency clearly appears in the more recent cases to uphold the deed if possible, and if necessary to that end to regard it as speaking with colloquial freedom rather than with formal accuracy.””
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.