Stanley v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1950
15 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 Samuel Carpenter v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Inhabitants of Goshen v. Inhabitants of Stonington · Mechanics' & Working-Men's Mutual Savings Bank & Building Ass'n v. Allen · Dentzel v. Waldie · Hulburt v. Emerson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"All deeds to real property heretofore executed in this state which shall have been signed by the grantor in due form, shall be sufficient in law to convey the legal title to the premises therein described from the grantors to the grantees, without any other execution or acknowledgment whatever; and such deeds so executed shall be received in evidence in all courts in this state and be conclusive evidence of the title to the lands therein described against the grantors, their heirs and assigns.” Laws 3878, p. 82, § 1.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The rule as to curative statutes in such cases seems to be this: ‘If the thing wanting or which failed to be done, and which constitutes the defect in the proceedings, is something, the necessity for which the legislature might have dispensed with by a prior statute, then it is not beyond the power of the legislature to dispense with it by a subsequent statute. And if the irregularity consists in doing some act which the legislature might have made immaterial by prior law, it is equally competent to make the same immaterial by a subsequent law.’ (Cooley on Constitutional Limitation, 371). Such legislation is sustained by numerous authorities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There is nothing in the Constitution of this state prohibiting the passage of retrospective laws in such cases, and, where not prohibited, the power of the Legislature to pass them has been generally sustained. The formalities required in the execution of a deed are purely statutory, and it is always competent for the Legislature to declare by what form of conveyance the title to real property may be transferred.””
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.