Wells v. Blackman’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 1974 · most notably Waterman v. Tidewater Associated Oil Co. (1947), McDonald v. Richard (1943)
2 federal appellate · 55 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 McDade v. Bossier Levee Board · Voiers v. Atkins Bros. · Stokes v. Shackleford · Ellis v. Prevost · State v. Wilson
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-settled principle of the common law that, if one conveys real estate with a covenant of general warranty, he cannot be allowed to set up against his grantee, or those claiming under him, any Utle subsequently acquired, either by purchase or otherwise, and that such new title will inure, by way of estoppel, to the use and benefit of his grantee, his heirs and assigns.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lear v. John““And equally is it true that if A. sells property of which he is the owner, and, it being sold in satisfaction of a debt due by him, he becomes the purchaser, either directly or through mesne conveyance, the title so acquired inures to the benefit of such vendee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lear v. John““If A. sells property of which he is not the owner, and he afterwards acquires title, that title vests at once in the vendee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lear v. John
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.