Tyson v. Spearman’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently February 1986 · most notably Snelling v. Adair (1940), Arnold v. Sun Oil Co. (1949)
76 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 Tillery v. Fuller · National Park Bank v. Concordia Land & Timber Co. · Succession of Tyson · Ramsey v. Beck · Posey v. Fargo
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever fairly puts a person on inquiry is sufficient notice, where the means of knowledge are at hand; and if he omits to inquire, he is then chargeable with all the facts which, by a proper inquiry, he might have ascertained. * * * Means of knowledge with the duty of using them are, in equity, equivalent to knowledge itself. Where there is a duty of finding out and knowing, negligent ignorance has the same effect in law as actual knowledge. * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Lhe next question for our consideration is whether or not the transaction of August 12th, 1919, between the defendants and Chesley Gibson is in fact a partition “As stated in the case of Tippett v. Jett, 3 Rob. 313 , ‘ * * • * whatever may be the form of the act, it is well settled, that every first settlement between heirs or partners by which a state of indivisión is terminated, is, in substance, a partition;’ and, as expressed in the syllabus of the case of Westover v. Aime, 11 Mart., O.S., 443, ‘if heirs in dividing the property of their ancestor, held in common, pass an act of sale to each other, it will be regarded not as a sale but as a partition.’ See, also, Corpus Juris, Volume 47, p. 267.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stone v. Jefferson“such rights as the lessee may have acquired by virtue of his possession inures to the benefit of his lessor.”
1 later decision 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.