Fletcher v. Wireman’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1961
16 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The filing of the notice was a warning to the whole. world that any title Perry claimed was liable to be divested by that suit; and whoever became the purchaser of the mortgage afterwards would take it with constructive notice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Breslin v. Breslin
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.