Scott v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1985
2 district · 7 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.
Relationships
Relies on Horton v. Murden · Hunt v. . Johnson · Westesen v. Olathe State Bank · Kunkle v. Soule
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It should have been registered in her and Scott as tenants in common. The contract is not a mere contract to convey, it is, in effect, a conveyance each to the other of one-half his or her interest. No other interpretation can be given to the words ‘That when title is perfected and from this date each consents with the other to be equal owners of said land.’ “This is seen by supposing a deed between these parties with all formalities — the twelve parts of the deed of conveyance — -whereby each, in consideration of the act of the other, grants, bargains, sells and conveys to the other the undivided one-half of his or her interest, whatsoever that may be. The net result of such a formal deed would be exactly what is expressed in the above quoted clause, ‘each consents with the other to be equal owners of said land.’ Nothing essential to a conveyance is lacking. No particular form of words or formality is necessary to pass the title to real estate [citing cases]. The intent manifested by the instrument controls. * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.