Enright v. Bannister’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1996
18 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 John Games v. John Stiles · Mowery v. Coffman · Payne v. Payne · Crisman v. Swanson · Seibel v. Rapp
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The delivery may be actual, as by manual tradition to the grantee, or to another for his use, or it may be constructive .... It may be proved by direct evidence or be inferred from circumstances.” Enright v. Bannister, 195 Va. 76, 79 , 77 S.E.2d 377, 379 (1953).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is generally agreed * * * that the law makes stronger presumptions in favor of delivery where a deed is a voluntary settlement than in an ordinary case of bargain and sale.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.