Haas v. Sternbach’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Union County v. Merscorp, Inc. (2013), Dova v. Hancock (1924)
5 federal appellate · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSternbach v. Leopold
Relationships
Relies on Cook v. Tullis · Sawyer v. Turpin · Field v. Ridgely · Lawson v. Funk · Folsom v. Clemence
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly the fact that a promise is made not to record an instrument properly admissible to record, whereby it becomes constructive notice of its existence, is a fact strongly tending to prove a fraudulent intent, and in some cases has been held sufficient of itself to defeat or postpone the instrument to subsequent conveyances or liens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Arnold
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.