Younge v. Guilbeau’s Empirical Analysis

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9 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The delivery of a deed is essential to the transfer of the title. It is the final act, without which all other formalities are ineffectual. To constitute • such delivery the grantor must part with the possession of the deed, or the right to retain it. Its registry by him is entitled to great'consideration upon this point, and might perhaps justify, in the absence of opposing evidence, a presumption of delivery.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnston v. Kramer Bros. & Co. · State of Oregon Division of State Lands v. Bureau of Land Management Department of the Interior United States

2. ““ * * * we are of the opinion, and so hold that, while the authorities are not entirely harmonious, the great weight of authority is that the recording of a deed to a minor is not such delivery as would pass title to such minor, unless it was the intention of the grantor that such recording was to operate as a delivery, so shown by evidence. “The registry of a deed by the grantor might, perhaps, in the absence of opposing evidence, justify a presumption of delivery, but such presumption is repelled where the registry was made without the knowledge or assent of the grantee, and the property it purported to convey always remained in the possession and under the control of the grantor. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wynne v. Pino