Forthman v. Deters’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Kolachny v. Galbreath (1910), Alexander v. Mobile Auto Co. (1917)
6 federal appellate · 58 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Plumb v. Campbell · Guyer v. Warren · Memory v. Niepert · Morse v. Seibold · Bryant v. Booze
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This general principle upon which this doctrine proceeds is, that from the time of the contract for the sale of the land the vendor, as to the land, becomes a trustee for the vendee, and the vendee, as to the purchase money, a trustee for the vendor, who has a lien upon the land therefor. And every subsequent purchaser from either with notice becomes subject to the same equities as the party would be from whom he purchased. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Speiss v. Martin
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.