Lohmeyer v. Bower’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2003
2 district · 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 32 Wash. 2d 159 - Hebb v. Severson · City of Wichita v. Boles · Chesebro v. . Moers · Wheeler v. Sullivan · 107 Pa. Super. 588 - Moyer v. Devincentis Con. 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Municipal ordinances relating to the use of land or the location and character of buildings that may be located thereon in existence at the time of the execution of a contract for the purchase of real estate are not such encumbrances or burdens on title as may be availed of by a vendee to avoid the agreement on the ground they render his title unmarketable.” Syl. f 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garrison v. Berryman““. . . The rule is a just and familiar one that a marketable tide is one which is free from reasonable doubt; and under this rule a tide is doubtful and therefore unmarketable if it exposes the party holding it to die hazard of litigation. (Citingcases.)” (p. 100.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Darby v. Keeran
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.