Babbitt v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2015
1 district · 13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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.
“It is, of course, very elementary law that a deed does not take effect until there is a delivery to the grantee,.... Delivery is a question of fact,.... The important question in determining whether there has been a delivery is the intent of the grantor that the instrument shall pass out of his control, and operate as a conveyance.”
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.