Kinney v. McCall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A person who purchases property for a nominal or grossly inadequate consideration is not a bona fide purchaser, and one who purchases from such a purchaser with notice stands in his shoes; but a purchaser of real property is not bound to compare the consideration recited in every deed in his chain of title with the market value of the property at the time of the several conveyances, under penalty of having the property impressed with a secret trust in his hands. If such a rule were sanctioned by the courts, no person could safely purchase, hold or deal in lands.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ross v. Kenwood Investment Co.

2. ““The conveyance to Lide Gonder was absolute in form, and if there was a trust in favor of the grantors, or in favor of Mrs. Kinney, or in favor of Mrs. Kinney and the children, it was an express trust and could not be proven by parol. Spaulding v. Collins, 51 Wash. 488 , 99 Pac. 806 . The wisdom of the rule excluding parol testimony in such cases was never better illustrated than in the case at bar.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Arnold v. Hall