Tennent v. Caffery’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Shaw Constructors v. ICF Kaiser Engineers, Inc. (2004), Keller v. Summers (1939)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Werk v. Leland University · Tennent v. Caffery · Lawler v. Bradford · Lee v. Long · McGee v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a party, before buying, knows of the defect of his own vendor's title, he is not entitled to withhold or suspend the payment of the price, nor demand security against eviction, if he be threatened therewith, on account of such defect.”
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.