Hoke v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 1991
21 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 Barri v. Schwarz Bros. Co. · Healy v. Metropolitan Utilities District · Smiley v. Thomas · Mueller v. Shacklett · Kahn v. Delaware Securities Corp.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Knowledge or notice, however full, of an incumbrance or of a paramount title does not impair the right of recovery upon covenants of warranty, as they are taken for protection and indemnity against known and unknown incum-brances or defects of title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baldwin v. Dube
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.