Waldermeyer v. Loebig’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But rules of interpretation, formerly adhered to with much strictness, have been changed, or modified, or abandoned, when, in their modern applications, they have been found hostile to the end the courts struggle to attain, which is to give effect to the grantor’s intention, and to effect which they malee it the paramount rule to read the whole instrument, and, if possible, give effect and meaning to all its language. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Monroe v. Lyons

2. ““Again and again it has been ruled by this court that a deed must be read as a whole, in a word, by its four comers, and that many of the old formulas were no longer invoked by the courts. All rules of construction rest upon the principle that they were designed to ascertain the intention of the grantor and effectuate it unless some positive rule of law would be infringed by so doing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Monroe v. Lyons

3. “Every deed is to be construed according to the intention of the parties, as manifested by the entire instrument, although it may not comport with the language of a particular part of it. Thus a recital or a preamble in a deed may qualify .the- generality of the words of a covenant or other parts of a deed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Monroe v. Lyons