McKeever v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Plaintiffs contend there was no delivery of the deed in question, therefore it is invalid and should have been set aside by the trial court under the evidence. The record does not show manual delivery of the deed by D. N. Doak to Mary Kate Doak, but does show he executed same and acknowledged' the execution before a notary public in the presence of Mary Kate Doak, who was in the room, doorway or just outside the door; that he was sick in bed and never left the hospital after executing the deed, died on the 29th day of March, 1949-; on April 1, 1949, said deed was filed for record and recorded in the office of the county clerk of Stephens County, Oklahoma, and at the trial of this case the deed was in the possession of the defendant. There is no evidence of nondelivery, and under the facts and circumstances shown by the record, the presumption is the deed was delivered to the grantee the date it bears and the burden of proving the deed in question was never, in fact, delivered rests upon the plaintiffs. * * * „”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blanchard v. Gordon