Seibert v. Seibert’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 140 Ill. App. 3d 621 - In Re Estate of Martinek (1986), Parvati Corp. v. City of Oak Forest (2010)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Thompson v. Dearborn · Newton v. Village of Glen Ellyn · Huber v. Williams · Dagley v. Black · Redmond v. Gillis
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘«o * where a deed imposes an obligation upon or creates any liability against a grantee an acceptance cannot rest upon a mere presumption but must be of an affirmative character.’ (Seibert v. Seibert (1942), 379 Ill. 470, 478 , 41 N.E.2d 544 .) The mere fact of possession of a deed by a grantee is not necessarily an acceptance thereof.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is settled that to constitute a conveyance there must be not only a delivery of the deed by the grantor but also an acceptance by the grantee and it must affirmatively appear that- the grantor’s intention was that the deed should pass title at the time and that he should lose all control of it. (Citing cases.) It follows that placing a deed in the hands of a grantee does not constitute delivery where it is shown the intention of the parties was that it was not to become operative immediately . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Gentry““[P]lacing a deed in the hands of a grantee does not constitute delivery where it is shown the intention of the parties was that it was not to become operative immediately and where such intention is evidenced by continued acts of ownership and operation.” Seibert, 379 Ill. at 478 , 41 N.E.2d at 547 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gabbett v. Ray
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.