Rowe v. Hayden’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 4 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “necessarily involves the rule that a purchaser before buying should clear up the doubts which apparently hang upon the title, by making due inquiry and investigation. If a party has knowledge of such facts as would lead a fair and prudent ‘man, using ordinary caution, to make further inquiries, and he avoids the inquiry, he is chargeable with the notice of the facts which by ordinary diligence he would have ascertained. He has no right to shut his eyes against the light before him. He does a wrong not to heed the “signs and signals” seen by him. It may be well concluded that he is avoiding notice of that which he in reality believes or knows. Actual notice of facts which, to the mind of a prudent man, indicate notice — is proof of notice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Maine National Bank v. Morse (In Re Morse)

2. “Actual notice is that which gives actual knowledge, or the means to such knowledge.” Rowe v. Hayden, 149 Me. 266 , 101 A.2d 190, 273 , 149 Me. 266 , 101 A.2d 190 (1953) (quoting Hopkins v. McCarthy, 121 Me., 27, 29, 115 A. 513 (1921)).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McNaughton v. Kelsey