First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Fargo v. Transamerica Title Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 528 · 1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2023
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on O'Connor v. Rf Lafferty & Company Inc · McIntosh v. Scottsdale Insurance · 144 Wis. 2d 68 - Blackhawk Production Credit Ass'n v. Chicago Title Insurance · Citicorp Savings of Illinois v. Stewart Title Guaranty Company
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Title insurance is merely a contract to indemnify the insured for any losses incurred as a result of later found defects in title. Title insurance does not insure the value of the subject property; it insures only that the title to such property is unencumbered by unknown liens, easements, and the like which might affect the property’s value. In other words, a title insurance policy is not analogous to a warranty of title found in a deed which is breached, if at all, at the time it is made.”
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.