Munoz v. . Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Sonnentheil v. Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. (1899), 29 Tenn. App. 327 - Poole v. First Nat. Bank of Smyrna (1946)
2 district · 51 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 Honegger v. . Wettstein · Day v. . Town of New Lots · Langdon v. Buel · Merritt v. . Bartholick · Church v. Gilman
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t has frequently been held that a delivery of a deed to the proper recording officer to be recorded, if intended to vest the title immediately or absolutely in the grantee, either as a trustee or otherwise, is a valid delivery; if not afterwards dissented from by the grantee.”
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.