Webb v. Webb's Guardian’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2005 · most notably Mackenzie v. A. Engelhard & Sons Co. (1924), Foxwell v. Justice (1921)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Kincaid v. McGowan · Bridges v. McAlister · Elliott v. Fowler · Hess v. Deppen · Turner v. Hamlin
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A purchaser at a judicial sale fairly made under a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, and who is a stranger to the record up to the rendition of the judgment, has never been held to be other than a bona fide purchaser, in the meaning of the section of the Civil Code above quoted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rose v. Cox“‘‘An infant — other than a married woman — may, within twelve months after attaining the age of twenty-one years, show cause against a judgment.””
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.