Young v. McWilliams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A court to which a cause is properly removed by change of venue acquires jurisdiction of the cause and subject-matter coextensive with that of the court from which the venue was removed, and may inquire into anything connected with the subject-matter of the action and render any judgment which might have been rendered by the court in which the case originated.” (Syllabus.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United Zinc & Chemical Co. v. Morrison

2. “The important inquiry here, therefore, is whether J.R. Young gave the deed to Bowlus, the custodian, intending thereby to part with the title to the property. If he retained control of the deed the situation was substantially the same as though he had held it in his own possession ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reed v. Keatley

3. ““But where he deposits it with a third person, to be turned over upon his death to the grantee, this is a good delivery if he thereby surrenders all control over it, but not otherwise.” (Page 245.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Norton v. Collins