Ayers v. Graff’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1973
22 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 Coleman v. Shoemaker · Eisenhour v. Cities Service Oil Co. · Berthoud v. McCune · Fitzgerald v. Fitzgerald · Burnworth v. Fellerman
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A title need not be bad in fact in order to be nonmerchantable or unmarketable. It is sufficient to render it so if an ordinarily prudent man with knowledge of the facts and aware of the legal questions involved would not accept it in the ordinary course of business.” (Syl. ¶ 3.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . In this case it is not proper to say they are in privity with their parents and are bound. Such rights as they may have come by reason of their being devisees under the will of Aaron Clingman, and not by reason of their being heirs of their respective parents. . . . The interests of the parents and the children are adverse to each other. Under the circumstances, they were strangers to the suit and such rights as they had were not adjudicated. “. . . the exact nature of the estate . . . could not have been determined, because none of the issue whose rights would have been adjudicated were before that court as parties to the action. . . .” (pp. 212, 213.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoard v. Shelton
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.