Allen v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Realty Portfolio, Inc. v. Hamilton (1997), Galloway Corp. v. S.B. Ballard Construction Co. (1995)
8 federal appellate · 31 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 Berry v. Klinger · Renner Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. v. Renner · Chavis v. Gibbs · Cheatham v. Gregory · Fitzgerald v. Fitzgerald
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had a duty to inquire as to sources of information reasonably disclosed by matters of record. At the time of their purchase ..., [the original grantor] was still alive and residing on the property conveyed.... By their own testimony, they chose to ignore those readily available sources of information whose knowledge was made obvious by the recorded deeds. Means of knowledge, with the duty of using them, are equivalent to knowledge itself”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.