Whitehead v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1995
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 Steel v. St Louis Smelting Refining · McLaughlin v. Barnum · Bryan v. Councilman · Dehn v. Dehn · Sleight v. Roe
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By good faith is meant an honest belief on the part of the occupant that he has secured a good title to the property in question and is the rightful owner thereof. And for this belief there must be some reasonable grounds such as would lead a man of ordinary prudence to entertain it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meyers v. Canutt“* *. Improvements by the husband upon the lands of the wife will in general be presumed to be intended by him for her benefit, and he is consequently not entitled to compensation for the same, * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meyers v. Canutt
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.