Keane v. Cannovan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““‘It is not sufficient that a similar description, in a contract or conveyance between individuals, might be shown by parol evidence to have been intended particular premises. The description must be certain of itself, and not such as to require evidence aliunde to render it certain. The statute requires the collector in his publication of the delinquent list to give such a condensed description of the property that it may be easily known. A description which cannot be made intelligible without resort to extrinsic evidence is not one of this character. Certainty in the description is required to apprise the owner that his property is advertised for sale, and to enable him to prevent the sale Spy the payment of the taxes thereon, and to impart information to bidders of the actual extent and location of the premises to be sold. All subsequent proceedings depend upon this certainty. An inaccurate or an uncertain description defeats every subsequent step taken, and, as we have already said, the uncertainty cannot be cured by evidence aliunde. ‘A description,’ says Blackwell, ‘sufficiently clear to convey land between man and man, and which, if contained in an agreement to convey, would authorize- a court of equity to decree a specific execution, will not answer in a proceeding to •enforce the collection of a tax.’ In the case of private transactions, the courts, in construing the document, endeavor to collect the intention of the •parties, and give that intention effect. If a lat”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pennsylvania Co. v. Cole

2. ““This circumstance is of itself sufficient to rebut the presumption of abandonment arising from Ibe fact that he ceased to occupy them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hewitt v. Story

3. ““But in such cases the leaving of the premises must have been voluntary, and without any express intention of resuming the possession.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hewitt v. Story