Hanrick v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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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. “held that the extension inured to his benefit, and that its legal effect was to perfect title in him. But there had been no grant of the original title to the attorney. An assertion of title in him was, therefore, a fraud-upon his principal. But this court said: “ We do not mean to say that the original grantee, if not prohibited bylaw, might not have assigned-his inchoate title to a third person, nor that the title might not, by a grant in proper form, have been perfected in such assignee.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hunnicutt v. Peyton

2. ““This being the law of Texas when the deed was executed, it was sufficient in form and mode of execution to pass a perfect title at that time from La Serda to the grantee, for it is well settled that, if a title once becomes vested, no subsequent change of laws as to forms or solemnities of conveyance will divest it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Surghenor v. Ranger