Dowell v. McNeill’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 1959
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Yarbrough v. Bellamy · Jordan v. Jordan · McKeever v. Parker · French v. Ayres · O'Neal v. Turner
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is essential to the validity of a deed that there be an actual delivery in order to pass title * * *. A valid delivery sufficient to pass title occurs only when the grantor parts with dominion over the deed with the intention to pass title. * * * Whether there was a valid delivery with intent to pass present title into the grantee is a question of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Peck
How this case has been treated — in progress
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