Ransom v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 8 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “in the case of a naked power, not coupled with an interest, the law requires that every prerequisite to the exercise of that power should precede it. The party who sets up a title must furnish the evidence necessary to support it. If the validity of a deed depends on an act in pais, the party claiming under it is as much bound to prove the performance of the act as he would be bound to prove any matter of record on which the validity of the deed might depend.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Deputron v. Young

2. ““By the common law the death of either party arrested all further proceedings In the case. If the death occurred before judgment; the suit abated. ‘If there was but one defendant, and he died after judgment, no execution could issue unless it was tested before the death occurred. In such case it was necessary to revive the judgment by scire facias.” Halsey v. Van Vliet, 27 Kan. 474 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State Ex Rel. First Nat. Bank v. Ogden