Young v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 2015
2 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, the execution of a deed must be complete before the witnesses subscribe their names. The subscription properly follows the complete execution of the deed, and need not be in the presence of the grantor, or at the instant of the delivery. Their presence and observation during the process of execution is essential; but if from accident, inadvertence, or ignorance, one should omit just then and there to sign the attestation, I see no reason why he could not, in a reasonable time thereafter, and before the recording of the deed, be allowed to sign, and thus perfect the deed.””
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.