McElroy v. Calhoun’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2006
12 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 Winn v. Willmott
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The presumption of validity that attaches to a deed to realty shown to be regular in execution upon its face cannot be overcome by the uncorroborated testimony of the grantors alone, where the surrounding facts are as consistent with the validity of the deed as they are with the denials of the grantors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A deed valid upon its face and acknowledged before a proper officer is presumed to be valid, and that presumption may not be overcome by evidence consisting only of the uncorroborated testimony of the grantors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gawf v. Gawf“`[a] deed apparently valid upon its face carries with it a presumption of validity'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Markham v. Markham
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.