Boyet v. Perryman’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1985 · most notably Quinette v. Delhommer (1965), Union Bank v. Roy (1965)
30 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 Waterman v. Tidewater Associated Oil Co. · Arnold v. Sun Oil Co. · Liles v. Pitts · Labarre v. Rateau · Bendernagel v. Foret
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“put a reasonably prudent person on guard, it then devolves upon him to pursue every lead and ferret out all the facts to the end that he may not purchase until he has complete information before him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by its nature would have been sufficient to transfer the ownership of the property, provided it had been derived from the real owners”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a legal and transferable title of ownership in the possessor.”
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.