Prutsman v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 1986 · most notably Lykins v. McGrath (1902), Taft v. Taft (1886)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In some cases the deed is held to operate presently, though placed in the hands of a stranger with a direction to deliver it to the grantee at some future day or upon some certain event. In such cases, if there be no condition connected with the delivery to the grantee, the happening of which must by the terms of the authority in the receiver precede such delivery, the title passes at once to the grantee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. Wells““If a grantor deliver any writing as his deed to a third person to be delivered over by him to the grantee on some future event, it is the grantor’s deed presently, and the third person is a trustee of it for the grantee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. Wells
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.