Prouty v. Devin’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1985 · most notably 39 Cal. 3d 281 - I. E. Associates v. Safeco Title Insurance (1985), 76 Cal. App. 2d 75 - Shapiro v. Equitable Life Assurance Society (1946)
8 federal appellate · 23 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 Warden v. Adams · Bank of Mendocino v. Baker
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question for determination is whether there was actual notice upon the part of Bates of circumstances sufficient to put him as a prudent man upon inquiry. If so, then in law he is chargeable with constructive notice and knowledge of the fact of this pre-existing mortgage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooper v. Flesner
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.