Richardson v. Levi’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 94 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “• “The court, in holding that the deed before them, which conveyed only the right, title, and interest of the grantor, did not protect the grantee against a previous trust with which the land ‡ * *, was charged, said that if it had been a conveyance of the land, instead of the right, title, and interest of the grantor, it might be necessary to inquire whether the registration or possession of the opposing claimant was notice to the grantee. But they say, as he only took the grantor’s right, he took nothing which the latter had previously conveyed. The very terms of the deed were notice to him of all the rights previously conferred upon others by his grantor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baldwin v. Drew

2. ““it may now be regarded as the settled law of this state that a party receiving a quitclaim deed to land cannot be deemed a bona fide purchaser, without notice, of any greater interest therein than his grantor had at the date of the execution of the deed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Meacham v. Halley