Wilkin v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.2d 42 · 1951
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1998
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Mellen v. Moline Malleable Iron Works · Le Maistre v. Leffers · Ebert v. Poston · Gay v. Parpart · Illinois National Bank v. Gwinn
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A party plaintiff to an action who obtains a judgment therein and purchases at a judicial sale made under such judgment is not a ‘purchaser in good faith' within the meaning of that phrase in 12 Okl.St.Anno. § 176, and if the judgment is vacated for error, irregularity, or fraud, the title of such purchaser fails. The defeasible quality of the title acquired by such a purchaser is engrafted upon it by operation of law. If such a purchaser conveys his title to another, the vendee is charged with notice, with respect to which he may not assert ignorance, that his vendor’s title is defeasible, that his vendor is not a purchaser in good faith under § 176, supra, and that if his vendor’s title fails, by reason of the reversal or vacation of the judgment, the title acquired by him, as vendee, will also fail.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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