Sapp v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 160 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 206 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 98 So. 2d 334 - Cortina v. Cortina (1957), Klinger v. Milton Holding Co. (1938)
14 federal appellate · 160 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 Simmons Creek Coal Co. v. Doran · Cordova v. Hood · Cooper v. Flesner · McQuiddy v. Ware · Carolina Portland Cement Co. v. Roper
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 206 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Constructive notice” has been defined as notice imputed to a person not having actual notice; for example, such as would be imputed under the recording statutes [from properly recorded instruments in the chain of title] to persons dealing with property subject to those statutes. “Actual notice” is also said to be of two kinds: (1) Express, which includes what might be called direct information; and (2) implied, which is said to include notice inferred from the fact that the person had means of knowledge, which it was his duty to use and which he did not use, or, as it is sometimes called, “implied actual notice.” * * * Constructive notice is a legal inference, while implied actual notice is an inference of fact, but the same facts may sometimes be such as to prove both constructive and implied actual notice.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“any description, recital of fact, or reference to other documents puts the purchaser upon inquiry, and he is bound to follow up this inquiry, step by step, from one discovery to another and from one instrument to another, until the whole series of title deeds is exhausted and a complete knowledge of all the matters referred to and affecting the estate is obtained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If, in the investigation of a title, a purchaser, with common prudence, must have been apprised of another right, notice of that right is presumed as a matter of implied actual notice. * * * Means of knowledge, with the duty of using them, are in equity equivalent to knowledge itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.