Chapman v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We conclude that there is no authority for the proposition that a quitclaim deed in the chain of title deprives him who claims under it of the character of a bona fide purchaser. There are dieta and suggestions and inferences to that effect. But we deny and repudiate the proposition as unsound and insupportable on authority, principle, or policy.....We fully approve and adopt the language of Bawle on Covenants for Title, 4tli ed., 35: ‘ In the absence of local usage, it would seem that no presumption of notice can properly arise, either from the absence or presence of unlimited covenants.’ Such a doctrine, as that a quitclaim conveyance in the chain of title affects the party who claims under it with notice of infirmities in the title, would be as impolitic as it is unsupported by reason or authority.” (Chapman v. Sims, 53 Miss. 168, 169 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nidever v. Ayers