Vanzant v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1984
10 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 Houghton v. Hall · Turner v. Snype · Bywater v. Enderle · Ragsdale v. Ragsdale · Ruddock Cypress Co. v. Peyret
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.
““We are also of the opinion that the deed executed by Malinda Vanzant alone in favor of Morgan and the object of attack in cause No. 5647 [ 181 So. 666 ], should be set aside. The property, as before stated, belonged to the community of acquets and gains existing between the husband and wife. A wife cannot alienate property having that legal status without the authority and' consent of her husband who is head and master of the community. Civil Code, Articles 2402 and 2404; Bywater v. Enderle, 175 La. 1098 , 145 So. 118 . It is provided in article 2275 of the Civil Code that,— “ ‘Every transfer of immovable property must be in writing; but if a verbal sale, or other disposition of such property, be made, it shall be good against the vendor, as well as against the vendee, who confesses it when interrogated on oath, provided actual delivery has been made of the property thus sold.’ “The instrument presently under consideration carried no signature of the husband, and he has not confessed under oath to a verbal sale of the property. Nor did he grant to his wife written authority to execute the deed as agent for or on behalf of the community. A power of attorney to sell real estate must be in writing. Turner v. Snype, 162 La. 117, 118 , 110 So. 109 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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