Lowry v. Lowry’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2006
2 district · 11 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 Miller v. Miller · Hoard v. Jones · Reed v. Hazleton · Rohr v. Alexander · Powers v. Scharling
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.
““1. If from the terms of a written instrument, designated ’ as'a warranty deed, it appears the maker intended to immediktely vest title to real property, therein described, in the grantee,-the instrument is a deed; but if its terms disclose the grantor intended to vest title in the grantee only at the death of the grantor the instrument is testamentary in character and can be valid only if executed in the manner provided by statute for making a will. “2., Two instruments, designated as warranty deeds, examined, and held: They disclose the grantor warranted title to the property described therein only as of the date of delivery; the grantor expressly specified delivery thereof was to be at her death and the instruments were testamentary in character.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““All parties agree the instruments were not executed in accordance with the law of wills but were in the form of deeds. Were the instruments testamentary in character? That depends upon whether the interest they conveyed to the grantees was intended to vest presently or only after the death of the grantor. If the former was intended the instruments were deeds. If, on the other hand, the latter was intended the instruments were wills.” (p. 14.)”
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.