Betts v. Letcher’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably Hayes v. Northern Hills General Hospital (1999), Dennis v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. (1898)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Williamson v. . Brown · Brown v. . Volkening · Thompson v. Pioche · Evans v. Templeton · Fair v. Stevenot
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The protection which the registry law gives to those taking titles or security upon land upon the faith of the records should not be destroyed or lost except upon clear evidence showing a want of 'good faith in the party claiming this protection, and a clear equity in him who seeks to establish a right in hostility to such person. Slight circumstances, or mere conjectures, should not suffice to overthrow the title of one whose title is first on record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitford v. Dodson““Actual, open, and visible possession of real estate is constructive notice to the purchaser of all rights of the possessor in the land. Such possession charges the purchaser with notice of all equities of him in possession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitford v. Dodson
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.