Gatchell v. Gatchell’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2003
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Delivery of a deed occurs at the moment when the deed is in the hands of the grantee, ... with the consent of the grantor, and beyond his control, with intent on the part of the grantor that the deed should operate and inure as a muniment of title to the grantee.... Whenever, by acts or words, or both acts and words, the grantor so assents to the possession of the deed, then, and not until then, is delivery of the deed complete.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paine v. Paine
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.