Carpenter v. Dexter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 federal appellate · 14 district · 29 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The commissioner of deeds in New York had authority to act only in his, city, and it will be presumed, although the state is named, that the officer exorcised his office within the territorial limits for which he was appointed.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Henschel · Douglass v. Bishop

2. ““It is the policy of the law to uphold certificates when substance is found, and not to suffer conveyances, or the proof of them, to be defeated by technical or unsubstantial objections.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. National Bank of Goldsboro v. Hill · In re Universal Storage & Transfer Co.

3. ““The law of Illinois in force in 1847, upon the manner of taking acknowledgments, provides that no officer shall take the acknowledgment of any person, unless such person ‘shall be personally known to him to be the real person who (executed the deed), and in whose name such acknowledgment is proposed to be made, or shall be proved to be such by a credible witness’, and such personal knowledge, or proof, shall be stated in the certificate. (Rev. Stat. 111. of 1845, chap. 24, sec. 20.) “Looking now to the deed itself, we find that the attesta-. tion clause stated that it was ‘signed, sealed and delivered’ in the presence of the subscribing witnesses. One of these witnesses was the justice of the peace before whom the acknowledgment was taken; and he states in his certificate following immediately after the attestation clause, that the ‘above named William T. Davenport, who has signed, sealed and delivered the above instrument of writing, personally appeared’ before him and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed. Read thus with the deed the certificate amounts to this: that the grantor personally appeared before the officer, and in his presence signed, sealed and de livered the instrument, and then acknowledged the same before him. An affirmation, in the words of the statute, could not more, clearly express the identity of the grantor with the party making the acknowledgment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Favello v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n