Keesee v. Collum’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2014
4 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 Allen v. Bemis · O'Neal v. Brown · Stinson v. Daniel · Story v. Brown · Moss v. Moss
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though the evidence authorized a finding that at the time the grantor was preparing a division of his property, and [the daughter] at one time had physical possession of the deed to her for a few minutes, the jury, under the facts and circumstances appearing, were authorized to find that the maker did not intend to surrender dominion over the deed ... The delivery of a deed is complete as against the maker only when it is in the hands of or in the power of the grantee or someone authorized to act for him, with the consent of the grantor, and with intention that the grantee hold it as a muniment of title. O'Neal v. Brown, 67 Ga. 707 (2). But a mere manual delivery to the grantee is not sufficient, where the intention of the grantor to surrender dominion is not present. Story v. Brown, 98 Ga. 570 (3) ( 25 SE 582 ); Allen v. Bemis, 193 Ga. 556 (2), 563 ( 19 SE2d 516 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Johnson“The true test of delivery of a deed of conveyance is whether or not the grantor intended to reserve to himself the locus penitentiae.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Johnson“I will fix the rest tomorrow, I have got to lay down ... I will finish later ... put them all up.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Johnson
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.