Renehan v. McAvoy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In Clark v. Creswell, 112 Md. 342 , it was held, there is a consummated delivery when the instrument has passed from the grantor, without right of recall, to the grantee or to some third person for his use. The test of delivery is the relinquishment by the grantor of the custody or the control of the deed. When he has formally executed and acknowledged it and delivered it unconditionally to the grantee or one acting for him, the conveyance is completed and the title has passed. “It is also settled by the great weight of authority in this State and in other jurisdictions, that the grantor must part with all dominion and control over the deed at the time of its delivery to a third person, in order to make such act a sufficient delivery, in order to divest the title, and the delivery to the third person must be for the use and benefit of the grantee.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fike v. Harshbarger

2. ““I then asked him (grantor) what he wanted done with it (the deed) and he said that he wanted me to keep it for him (the grantor) ; at his death to have it put upon record.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Keating v. Augustine