Behrens v. Skelly’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.2d 715 · 1949
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1997
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Baltimore Co v. Phillips · Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. · Marchant v. Mead-Morrison Manufacturing Co. · United Press v. . New York Press 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the rule of privity one who purchases property after a suit [had] been begun against the vendor with respect to the property purchased is ‘chargeable with legal or constructive notice so as to render his purchase subject to the event of that suit’ even though he may have no actual knowledge of the suit. The theory is that when a controversy regarding property has been submitted for determination by judicial proceedings those who deal with the property thereafter ought to take subject to whatever that determination may be. The property owner whose rights have been put into litigation may not deny his opponent the fruits of victory by transferring the property to another pendente lite.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.