Waller v. Colvin’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably Phillips Oil Co. v. OKC Corp. (1987), Smith v. Chappell (1933)
2 federal appellate · 94 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 Fletcher v. Peck · McDuffie v. Walker · Baird v. Atlas Oil Co. · Sims v. Jeter · Adams v. Drews
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When it is considered that Mrs. Mary E. Pearson acquired title to the 23 acres by the same erroneous description by which she sold to Colvin and Colvin sold to Waller, it is clear that she cannot claim under a deed of that description, without admitting that, by the same description, the land passed to Colvin and from Colvin to Waller. Garrett v. Spratt, 131 La. 707 , 60 So. 199 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is therefore clear, under the authority of these decisions, that the settled public policy of the state that protects innocent third persons acquiring real estate on the faith of recorded titles is paramount to that which merely protects individuals against acts done in violation of a prohibitory law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vaughn v. Kemp““ * * * This fact in itself is the most convincing kind of proof that the defendant Mrs. Mary E. Pearson intended to convey to J. D. Colvin the property in question.””
1 later decision 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.