Harvey v. Whyte’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 144 Cal. App. 2d 781 - Lubin v. Lubin · 21 Cal. 2d 91 - Noble v. Beach · Anglo-California Trust Co. v. Oakland Railways · 144 Cal. App. 2d 404 - Kirkpatrick v. Tapo Oil Co. · Bullard v. McArdle
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A purchaser at an execution sale is chargeable with notice that he acquires no better title than the judgment debtor has; the rule of caveat emptor applies with all its force to such sales. 5”
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.