Gray v. Crockett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Mrs. Long stood by and allowed the contract to be executed; to some extent she participated in the negotiations preliminary to the execution of the contract. Her silence as to her title, her acquiescence at the time of the contract, and her failure to disclose her title during the earlier stages of this litigation, invoke against her the familiar rule of justice, that if one stands by and allows another to purchase his property without giving him any notice of his title, a court of equity will treat it as fraudulent for the owner to afterward try to assert his title. 'He who will not speak when he should, will not be allowed to speak when he would.’ ” (Citing authorities and quoting from one of them) : “ ‘If a married woman owns real property, but her title is not of record, and her husband enters into a contract for the sale of it, of which she is informed at the time and to which she makes no objection, she will be estopped from setting up her title to the land to defeat a suit brought against her husband for specific performance of his contract, and so would her grantee.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chastain v. Crossfield

2. ““Of course the plaintiff is only entitled to the enforcement of the contract of H. C. Long. He did not bargain for or purchase the supposed inchoate interest of Mrs. Long. She did not sign the contract, and was not asked to sign the same. The plaintiff is entitled to what his written contract calls for. The decree, however, for the specific performance of the contract . . . must be so framed as to fully protect such inchoate interest of Mrs. Long, as the wife of H. C. Long, . . .” (Italics supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Riffel v. Dieter

3. ““If a married woman owns real property, but her title is not of record, and her husband enters into a contract for the sale of it, of which she is informed at the time and to which she makes no objection, she will be estopped from setting up her title to the land to defeat a suit brought against her husband for specific performance of his contract, and so would her grantee.” (Italics supplied.) (p. 74.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Riffel v. Dieter