McOuatt v. McOuatt’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Samia v. Central Oil Co. of Worcester (1959), O'BRIEN v. Dwight (1973)
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 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 Hutchinson v. Stone · Kelly v. Calhoun · Lamson & Co. v. Abrams · Nellis v. . Munson · Aldrich v. Aldrich
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o particular words are necessary as long as they amount to an admission that [the grantor] has voluntarily and freely executed the instrument.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““[t]itle to real estate may be transferred by a deed which has not been acknowledged or which contains a certificate showing a defective acknowledgment, and the deed is good against the grantor and his heirs and those having actual notice, G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 183, § 4 ... ; but the grantor must acknowledge that he has executed the instrument as his free act and deed, and a certificate reciting that the grantor appeared before the officer making the certificate and made such acknowledgment must be attached to the instrument in order to entitle it to be recorded, G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 183, § 29; ... so that notice of the conveyance shall be given to all the world. . . . The certificate of acknowledgment furnishes formal proof of the authenticity of the execution of the instrument when presented for recording” (citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“McOuatt told the physician that he knew what he was about to do, that he was to sign papers to protect his wife, and that he had been intending to do this for some time. The defendant obtained a deed which the attorney had prepared and brought it to the hospital. She told her husband what it was, and in her presence a hospital clerk, who was a notary public, asked him if he knew what he was about to sign. He said that he did and that he was turning over his property to his wife. He executed the deed by making an X.... At some time thereafter he requested the defendant to have the deed recorded, which she did. He died some eight hours after he executed the deed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.