Wead v. Lutz’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2023
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.
Relationships
Relies on Grava v. Parkman Township · Goodson v. McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. · Krahn v. Kinney · National Amusements, Inc. v. City of Springdale · Bell v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“R.C. § 5301.25 does not invalidate an assignment that has not been recorded. The recording statute deems such an assignment for the encumbrance of land as fraudulent ‘so far as it related to a subsequent bona fide purchaser’ who, at the time of purchase, has no knowledge of the existence of an encumbrance on the land.... The recording statute is meant to protect innocent subsequent bona fide purchasers of land who have no knowledge of any encumbrances. The statute does not release the mortgage obligation of the original mortgagor’s estate or heirs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a right that the United States Constitution, the Ohio Constitution, a statute, the common law, or a rule of procedure entitles a person to enforce or protect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an action or proceeding that is specially created by statute and that prior to 1853 was not denoted as an action at law or a suit in equity.”
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.