Thornton v. Rains’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Adams v. First National Bank of Bells/Savoy (2005), Stephens County Museum, Inc. v. Swenson (1974)
3 federal appellate · 40 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 Benoit v. Wilson · 68 Tex. Crim. 295 - Burford v. State · Chevalier v. Lane's, Inc. · Taylor v. Sanford, Administrator · Eaton v. R. B. George Investment, Inc.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What constitutes a delivery of a deed is a question of law, but whether there was in fact a delivery of the deed under consideration is a question of fact, to be determined by the jury . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Driskill v. Forbes““The question of delivery of a deed is one of intention on the part of grantor to be determined from all the facts and circumstances . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Driskill v. Forbes“Of course the recording of a deed is not essential to the conveyance of title....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.