Miller v. Beardslee’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1946
3 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 Shears v. Westover · Tuthill v. Katz · Redding v. Rozell
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is apparent that when the deed was executed and delivered by the grantor it contained no complete description of land. The words, ‘lying north of property of Michigan Central R. R. Co.,’ are the only words employed which can by any possibility aid the description. And these words, in the light of certain testimony which was admitted, are found to afford no real aid because the railroad company had at least a right of way in seven sections in Oakland township. Other testimony, admitted withoút objection, and not disputed, tended to prove that Alice Smith owned land, otherwise corresponding with the description in the deed, in section 20 in said township and owned no other land in the township. Defendants say that this testimony, having come in without objection, may be properly used to determine what land was intended to be conveyed and to sustain the deed. We think this is not so. The case for complainant, so far as it is now presented, is this: Complainant is heir at law of Alice Smith. Alice Smith died owner of certain land unless she had conveyed it in her lifetime. She had not conveyed it because her voluntary effort in that direction was imperfect. The instrument she executed requires correction to make it effective. “The grantor being dead, a court of equity will not correct it. Redding v. Rozell, 59 Mich. 476 ( 26 N. W. 677 ); Shears v. Westover, 110 Mich. 505 ( 68 N. W. 266 ). See, also, Tuthill v. Katz, 174 Mich. 217 ( 140 N. W. 519 ). The conveyance therefore re”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Droppers v. Marshall““All of section twenty (20), town four (4) north, range eleven (11) east, Michigan.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Droppers v. Marshall
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.