Converse v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1955
5 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 Black v. Black · Speed v. Hollingsworth · McMullen v. Winfield Building & Loan Ass'n · Hutto v. Knowlton · First National Bank v. Hoover
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.
““All through these opinions applying and approving constructive notice the modification is observed to the effect that if the evidence shows that the conduct of the defendant was such as to throw plaintiffs off their guard, or to lull them into a sense of security so as to lead them to omit or forego the examination of the records, then the statute begins to run from the date of the actual knowledge of the fraud.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Faidley v. Emrich
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.