Crocker v. Lowenthal’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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

1. ““In regard to the second point, it is, no doubt, true that the deed of trust was never actually delivered to the trustee, but the grantor in the deed delivered it, together with the note it was intended to secure, to appellee, for whose benefit it was made, and who alone had rights secured by it. The trustee had no interest whatever in the trust deed, and an actual delivery to him was not required. A delivery to the cestui que trust would fully answer all the requirements of the law. It is not always necessary that a deed should be delivered to the grantee therein named in order to render the deed binding and obligatory. . . . Indeed, where the grantor parts with the control of the instrument, and places it in the possession of another, with the intent and for the purpose of making it effectual and a binding contract, the delivery of the instrument will be regarded as binding and conclusive upon the grantor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 7 Wash. 2d 632 - Anderson Buick Co. v. Cook