Wasserman v. Metzger’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2016
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Fletcher v. Peck · Williams v. Jackson · Wilson v. Wall · Alexander Shirras John Black William Milligan William Blacklock Joseph Verrees v. John Caig Robert Mitchel · Sulphur Mines Co. v. Thompson's Heirs
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mrs. Wasserman was, therefore, not a complete purchaser but the purchaser of a mere equity which had not been paid for, and she had no right to call for the legal title when she received notice of the fraud of Morris and the irregularity in the trustee’s sale. A payment after notice would give her no right to call for the legal title, for whatever she does to protect her title after notice is done mala fide and does not avail.... The general rule is that the purchaser of a mere equitable title must take the place of the person from whom he purchases. He stands in his vendor’s shoes. He gets the title of his vendor and nothing more.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the parties are so circumstanced that a court of equity cannot prevent their [promissory notes] enforcement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.