Jones v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2007
6 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 Martin v. Ogden · Straughan v. Bennett · Goodman v. Pareira · McIlroy v. Fugitt
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is unfortunate that Estes fell into the error of purchasing encumbered property, but that fact does not entitle him to take free of the mortgage, as a bona fide purchaser. A court can offer at a judicial sale only such title as is held by the person or estate whose interest is being sold. Consequently it is firmly settled that the rule of caveat emptor applies to such a sale, so that the purchaser takes subject to outstanding liens." (Emphasis added.)”
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.