Wyatt v. Wehmueller’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 174 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Hayes v. Continental Insurance (1994), Zamora v. Reinstein (1996)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 174 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 Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Foust · Rawlings v. Apodaca · United Bank v. Mesa N. O. Nelson 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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person purporting to claim an interest in, or a lien or encumbrance against, real property, who causes a document asserting such claim to be recorded in the office of the county recorder, knowing or having reason to know that the document is forged, groundless, contains a material misstatement or false claim or is otherwise invalid is liable to the owner or beneficial title holder of the real property for the sum of not less than five thousand dollars, or for treble the actual damages caused by the recording, whichever is greater, and reasonable attorney fees and costs of the action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A court also should interpret two sections of the same statute consistently, especially when they use identical language.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“give meaningful operation to all of its provisions.”
2 later decisions 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.