Capozzella v. Capozzella’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2004
9 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 Thomas' Adm'r v. Lewis · King v. Merryman · Taylor v. Smith · Rust v. Phillips · Payne v. Tobacco Trading Corp.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Delivery is, of course, essential to the validity of a deed. The delivery may be actual, as by manual tradition to the grantee, or to another for his use, or it may be constructive as where it is placed in the power and control of the grantee. It may be proved by direct evidence or be inferred from circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“What makes delivery operative is the grantor's intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * effectuated by words or acts * * * *”
1 later decision 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.