Strekal v. Espe’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2020
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 Dandridge v. Williams · BFP v. Resolution Trust Corporation · Pomeroy v. Waitkus · Aspen Wilderness Workshop, Inc. v. Colorado Water Conservation Board · Futura Development Corp. v. Centex Corp.
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.
“[T]he security and marketability of real estate titles [are] an “essential state interest.” BFP v. Resolution Trust Corp., 511 U.S. 531, 544 , 114 S.Ct. 1757, 1764 , 128 L.Ed.2d 556 (1994). This interest is best served by a bright line rule that enables potential buyers to determine the validity of a title and its potential encumbrances. Lobato v. Taylor, 71 P.3d 938, 964 (Colo. 2002) .... The recording act is an essential part of a scheme “intended to ensure titles to real property are secure and marketable.” Lobato v. Taylor, supra, 71 P.3d at 964 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a good faith purchaser with a ree-ord interest in real property over someone who has an unrecorded interest in the same property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“longstanding and substantial features of real estate law”
1 later decision 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.