Wlodarek v. Thrift’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Flaherty v. Weinberg (1985), Mumford v. Staton, Whaley & Price (1969)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 36 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 Savings Bank v. Ward · Cochrane v. Little · Watson v. Calvert Building & Loan Ass'n · Horner v. Beasley · Stinchcomb v. Realty Mortgage 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It seems generally accepted that the liability of the defendants as attorneys to examine and pass upon a title to land is founded in contract and not on tort, and, therefore, does not, as a general rule, extend beyond the person by whom they were so employed. So, when the party with whom the contract is made is the purchaser, and he causes the title to the land, after paying the purchase money, to be conveyed by the vendor to his nominee, the subsequent loss and injury sustained by such nominee and his successors in the title, by reason of any defect in or absence of title, may not be recovered of the attorneys by such third parties as damages.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In the case of a total failure of title to land purporting to be conveyed, the measure of damages suffered by the purchaser, whether the title was conveyed to the purchaser or his nominee, (a) would ordinarily include the full amount of the purchase price paid by the purchaser, and interest in the discretion of the jury.” (Emphasis added).”
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.