Couch v. Addy’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1963
4 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 Meigs v. Dexter · Powell v. Banks · McMurtry v. Brown · People v. Watkins
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that to constitute a valid deed, not only must there have been an intention on the part of the grantors to deliver, but the- grantee must accept the same in person, or by some one whom he has authorized to accept for him, or whose conduct he subsequently ratifies.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A deed is 'defined to be a written instrument containing a contract, or agreement, which has been delivered by the party to be bound and accepted by the obligee, or covenantee.””
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.