Norris v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 31 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is believed that no- well-considered case has gone to the extent to hold a conveyance of land valid, unless it is described with such reasonable certainty as that it can be identified by the usual tests of locality and identity when applied to the terms of the deed itself, or unless the description, in the language of Lord Bacon, ‘is that which seemeth .certain and without ambiguity for anything that appeareth upon the deed or instrument, but there is some collateral matter of the deed that breedeth ambiguity.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lemm v. Kramer

2. “The true rule, as deduced from the authorities, seems to be that this description should be so definite and certain upon the face of the instrument itself, or by other writing referred to, that the land can be identified with reasonable certainty. To hold otherwise would defeat the wise intention and object of the statute, by permitting to rest in parol extrinsic testimony, that which should have been embraced in the written instrument. Johnson v. Granger [ 51 Tex. 42 ] supra, and authorities there cited.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Graham Nat. Bank v. Couger

3. ““To hold such instrument valid would in effect cause that to pass without deed which the ■law appointeth shall not pass but by deed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fortenberry v. Cruse