Bova v. Wyatt’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1989
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 Ives v. Culton · Henderson v. Odessa Building & Finance Co. · Brinkman v. Tinkler
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““4' * * it is the settled law in this state that a judgment creditor who has fixed a lien upon real estate by judicial process and who has had an .abstract of his judgment duly recorded in the judgment records and in the indexes thereto in the county in which said real estate is situated is a creditor within the meaning of said Article ■6627. * * * % * * # * * “Further, the notice given by Mrs. Bova to the sheriff of Walker County did not affect the rights of the purchasers at said execution sale and was ineffective since both said abstract and execution liens were acquired prior to the date of the giving of such notice.””
2 later decisions 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.