Collins v. Delashmutt’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 6 state decisions

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

1. ““This theory is in accordance with the strict literal construction of the agreement; but the law requires something more than a bare literal compliance. It is now a settled principle of law, governing all executory contracts for the sale of real property, that there is an implied warranty on the part of the vendor that he will convey a good title. A contract to make a good and sufficient deed is not satisfied by the execution of a merely formal conveyance, which, on account of defects in the vendor’s title, fails to pass a good title to the vendee.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. Renza