Wittick v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1996
15 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the written contract provides that the vendor shall convey the premises free from encumbrances, it is immaterial that the purchaser had knowledge at the time of contracting, that there was an encumbrance on the property. The vendor assumed the risk of acquiring clear title and the purchaser had the right to insist on the terms of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“governed by the established principles and rules which constitute the body of equity jurisprudence.”
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.