Simpson v. Cornish’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2009
10 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 United States v. California & Oregon Land Co. · Cowie v. Strohmeyer · Moelle v. Sherwood · Nunnemacher v. State · Will on Dardis
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it can in no case be stronger than that of a purchaser, who has put himself in peril by purchasing a title, and paying a valuable consideration, without notice of any defect in it, or adverse claim to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“grantee . . . who purchases in good faith, without notice, and for a valuable consideration.”
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.