Arnett v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1986
14 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 Cook v. Martin · Soule v. West · Stokes v. Shackleford · Schultz v. Ryan · Cherami v. Cantrelle
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Having accepted unconditionally the succession of Mrs. Sale, defendant became liable for the debts and obligations of that succession. Among those obligations was Mrs. Sale’s warranty of title to the 240 acre tract (including the 60 acres now under consideration) conveyed to Charles D. Arnett and Amanda H. Arnett, this plaintiff’s father and mother. By that warranty Mrs. Sale bound herself to defend the title to all of the property and to maintain the vendees in peaceable possession. Certainly Mrs. Sale, if she were alive, could not recover the 60 acres. Neither can this defendant; she stands in the same position as Mrs. Sale, having accepted unconditionally her succession and thereby having assumed her obligation of warranty.””
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.