Hall v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Where possible, the court should give effect to the intention of the parties to a deed. Where the language of a deed is plain and unambiguous the intention of the parties must be determined from the deed itself, and parol evidence is not admissible to show intent. Oral and written statements are generally inadmissible to contradict or vary unambiguous terms contained in a deed. If the language in the deed is ambiguous, then evidence of all the surrounding facts and circumstances is admissible to prove the parties’ intent. The parol evidence rule does not preclude the use of extrinsic evidence to explain the parties’ intent when the provisions of a writing are ambiguous. Where, as here, the consideration clause clearly recites that the transfer was made “For Value Received,” parol evidence is not admissible to contradict the deed by attempting to show the transfer was in part a “gift” rather than “for value.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Union Bank, N.A. v. JV L.L.C. · Eric Kawamura v. Jessica Kawamura