Canaday v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2002
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Hollingsworth v. Colthurst · Mays v. Blair · Read v. Loftus · Leroy v. Harwood · Shelton v. Ratterree
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The abstracts and title were to be made and perfected to the satisfaction of the defendant. He is not satisfied with either. He took the opinion of able lawyers on both subjects, who advised him the abstracts are insufficient and the title is not merchantable. His dissatisfaction is not captious, nor arbitrary, nor feigned and under his contract he is not obliged to go further.” (Citing authorities.) (p. 578.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gould v. Stewart
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.