Adkisson v. Waitman’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2003
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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 Parrott v. Gulick · Dennis v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n · Lockwood Bros. v. Frisco Lumber Co. · Morris v. Packard Dallas Co. · Nelson v. Jones
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The certificate of title to an automobile issued under a motor vehicle code is not a muniment of title which establishes ownership, but is merely intended to protect the public against theft and to facilitate recovery of stolen automobiles *»”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘The universal and fundamental principle of our law of personal property is that no man can be divested of his prop erty without his own consent, and, consequently, that even the honest purchaser under a defective title cannot hold against the true proprietor.’ ””
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.