Holt v. Manuel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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

1. “It is not sufficient to create a reasonable doubt that the owner might be exposed merely to idle litigation, but it must be a reasonable apprehension that the purchaser taking the title might be subjected to litigation of a substantial nature from which his title might be placed in jeopardy. In determining whether or not reasonable doubt exists, it appears to be the general rule that the opinion of an attorney that the title to property is bad is not sufficient to raise such a doubt, although, as in the instant case, the attorney may be one of admitted standing and ability. Such opinion that the title is invalid, if erroneous, will not justify the purchaser in receding from his contract, [cases omitted]. If it should appear to the court, upon generally familiar principles of law, that the title is valid, then the doubt as to the title would be unfounded, and there could be no basis for any reasonable apprehension that the purchaser would be subjected to substantial litigation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vaughn v. Morris

2. ““A marketable title is one that is free from reasonable doubt. There is reasonable doubt when there is uncertainty as to some defects appearing in the course of its deduction, and the doubt must be such as affects the value of the land or that will interfere with its sale.” Griffith v. Maxwell, 63 Ark. 548 , 39 S.W. 852 . And in Fenner v. Reeher, 148 Ark. 553 , 230 S.W. 581 , we quoted with approval the following: “The court will never compel a purchaser to take a title where the point on which it depends is too doubtful to be settled without litigation, or where the purchase would expose him to the hazard of such proceedings; or, as it is usually expressed, it will not compel him to buy a lawsuit.” (Emphasis supplied).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 6 Ark. App. 308 - Baugh v. Johnson

3. “is one which imports such ownership as enables and ensures to the owner the peaceable control and use of the property as against everyone else.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Camp v. Commonwealth Land Title Insurance