Williamson v. . Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 106 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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ The true doctrine on this subject is that, where a purchaser has knowledge of any fact sufficient to put him on inquiry as to the existence of some right or title in conflict with that he is about to purchase, he is presumed either to have made the inquiry, and ascertained tbe extent of such prior right, or to have been guilty of a degree of negligence equally fatal to his claim to be considered as a bona fide purchaser.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Corn Belt Trust & Savings Bank of Belle Plaine v. May · Schweiss v. Woodruff

2. ““I can see no foundation in reason for a distinction between the evidence requisite to establish a want of good faith, in a case arising under the recording act, and in any other case; and the authorities here referred to are sufficient to show that no such distinction is recognized, at the present day, by the courts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Salmon v. Norris