CRAFT v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1989
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Davis v. Butler · Walters v. M. & M. BANK OF ELLISVILLE · Walters v. Merchants & Manufacturers Bank · Scottish-American Mortgage Co. v. Bunckley · Roberts v. Bookout
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One view concerning the juristic position of a vendee or mortgagee who omits to inspect the records is that `his ignorance, if it exists, is wilful, and he acts at his peril.' The preferable theory, however, is that the omission of an intending purchaser or mortgagee to investigate the state of the title of the property in question constitutes negligence on his part. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Quates v. Griffin
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.