Gross v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Mathews v. O'Donnell (1921), Fulwider v. Trenton Gas, Light & Power Co. (1909)
39 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 Warder v. Henry · Baxter v. St. Louis Transit Co. · Williams v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. · Patterson v. Booth · Huse v. Ames
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It would be a dangerous doctrine, indeed, to hold that one, by forging a deed from his neighbor to himself and putting it upon record, could then, by conveying to a third party having no notice of the forgery, confer upon the latter a good title merely because the record showed the title in the forger. If such were the law, no man’s title would be safe. The principles of justice and public policy alike forbid the adoption of such a rule.’ (Pry v. Pry, 109 Ill. 466, 1 . c. 476, and cases cited; 2 Jones, Law of Real Property and Conveyancing, § 1353). * # And it is wholly immaterial whether they had notice of the forgery or not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitney v. Whitney
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.