Menard v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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

1. ““In Arthur v. Caverly, 98 Mich. 82 [ 56 N. W. 1102 ], it was held that a married woman uniting with her husband in a warranty deed of his property is liable on the covenant when she obtains all the consideration, which, in that case, was a conveyance to her of other property. The record in the instant case does not disclose for what purpose the wife signed the deed, as she had no dower interest; the husband’s interest being simply' a life estate. The burden was upon the complainant to show for what purpose she joined in the instrument, and to prove it clearly, and to show that she had brought herself within the rule above set forth. Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. v. Savings Bank, 68 Mich. 116 [ 35 N. W. 853 ]. This complainant has failed to do, and it necessarily follows that the wife’s signature to the instrument was a nullity, and did not bind her subsequently acquired estate.” Menard v. Campbell, 180 Mich. 592 ( 147 N. W. 556 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Agar v. Streeter