161 Cal. App. Supp. 2d 837 - Kessler v. Bridge’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2018
8 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 19 Cal. App. 518 - Knight v. Black · 37 Cal. 2d 644 - Hocking v. Title Insurance & Trust Co. · Cheney v. Trauzettel · 81 Cal. App. 2d 50 - Bliss v. Security-First National Bank · Seidell v. Anglo-California Trust Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]itle is duly perfected when all steps have been taken to make it perfect, i.e., to convey to the purchaser that which he has purchased, valid and good beyond all reasonable doubt[ ] [citation], which includes good record title [citation], but is not limited to good record title, as between the parties to the transaction. ... The court in an unlawful detainer [action] ... has jurisdiction to determine the validity of such defenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Title is duly perfected when all steps have been taken to make it perfect, i.e., to convey to the purchaser that which he has purchased, valid and good beyond all reasonable doubt ..., which includes good record title ..., but is not limited to good record title, as between the parties to the transaction. The term 'duly' implies that all of those elements necessary to a valid sale exist, else there would not be a sale at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“title under the sale has been duly perfected,”
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.