Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1934
2 federal appellate · 17 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.
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.
““Tlie essential facts authorizing the decree entered herein by the trial court * * * are these: That although the appellant was found to have been the real owner of the land, in controversy prior to the creation of the debt of plaintiff's assignor, and although she was found to have accepted the deed to the land at tlie time it was made in good faith and without the contemplation of a fraud upon the rigid s of any one, the court found that while she was the real owner of the land, she suffered the record title thereof to be and remain in her codefendant Charles Clifton, whereby he, on the 'strength of his apparent ownership of same induced the plaintiff’s assignor to extend to him a credit which otherwise would have been denied. The mere recital by the court in its finding of facts ‘that the conveyance of the land to the defendant Isabel Stephens was made and accepted by her in good faith and without fraud on her part’ is no impeachment of the correctness or the validity of the decree subjecting appellant’s land to the claim of a creditor of the apparent owner of the land, prior to the time appellant was invested with the legal title thereto in November, 1894. It was not necessary that the defendant Isabel Stephens should actually have known that her codeiendant Clifton was obtaining credits from the plaintiff's* assignor on the faith of his apparent ownership of the land ih controversy which stood of record in his name, or that she did in fact know that credit liad actually ”
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.