Downing v. Eubanks’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Szakaly v. Smith · 168 Ind. App. 621 - Residents of Green Springs Valley Subdivision v. Town of Newburgh · Hatton v. Fraternal Order of Eagles, Aerie 4097 · Dorothy Edwards Realtors, Inc. v. McAdams · 62 Tenn. App. 518 - Lisenbee v. Parr
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'If a grantor conveys property, part of which belongs to the grantor and part of which belongs to another, the deed is good as to the property owned by the grantor and a mere nullity as to the property not owned by the grantor.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Piles v. Gosman“a grantor cannot convey that which he does not own.”
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.