Hoover v. Wukasch’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

44 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The rule is now well settled that a writing will be held sufficient in this particular if it furnishes 'within itself, or by reference to some other existing writing, the means or data by which the particular land to be conveyed may be • identified with reasonable certainty.’ * * * ‘a description of land sold as that which the purchaser or a third person is in possession of or as that on which one of the parties resides has been held sufficient to satisfy the statute.’ See also cases cited in Annotation in 23 A.L.R.2d 6 , 61-64.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mid-States Homes, Inc. v. Jones

2. “No estate of inheritance or freehold, or for a term of more than one year, in lands and tenements, shall be conveyed from one to another, unless the conveyance be declared by an instrument in writing, subscribed and delivered by the party disposing of the same, or by his agent thereunto authorized by writing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCloud v. Knapp

3. “the writing must furnish within itself, or by reference to some other existing writing, the means or data by which the particular land to be conveyed may be identified with reasonable certainty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Broaddus v. Grout