Burns v. Goodrich’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The sentence . . . upon which Respondent relies is not an intention clause restricting the granting clause to a conveyance of the grantor’s interest . i. e., his inherited undivided interest subject to the judgment lien against his mother. To the contrary, the sentence constitutes an identifying reference to the interest in land which was the subject of the conveyance and comports with the granting clause which states in clear and unambiguous terms the conveyance by the grantor of an undivided 33⅛ acres of land. [Footnotes omitted and emphasis added].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rutherford v. Randal

2. ““Martha Lord’s one-half interest in the 200 acres was conveyed to D. B. Speights by sheriff’s deed dated August 7, 1945, and on this same date Speights conveyed to Ivy Lord 33½ undivided acres out of the interest he purchased at the foreclosure sale. This deed had been lost but its execution, delivery and terms were established in the record and such proof does not involve any application of the Statutes of Limitation, Article 5529, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes.” (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burress v. Burress

3. “It being understood that the interest hereby conveyed in said 200 acres of land being the interest inherited by the said Ivy Lord, from the estate of his deceased father and mother .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Rutherford v. Randal