Biwer v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 1986 · most notably 75 Ill. 2d 547 - Brown v. Lober (1979), 101 Ill. App. 3d 140 - Advertising Checking Bureau, Inc. v. Canal-Randolph Associates (1981)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 Bond v. Moore · Rogers v. Hill · Akers v. Clark · Moore v. Vail · Walton v. Follansbee
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is likewise the rule in this state that where one who has no interest, or but a part thereof, in the land he undertakes to convey, and afterwards acquires title, the interest he acquires passes to the grantee by way of estoppel, and, if there be a warranty, it not only estops the grantor but a subsequent purchaser from him. Frisby v. Ballance, 2 Gilm. 141; 4 Kent's Com. , Phelps v. Kellogg, 15 Ill. 131; Bennett v. Waller, 23 Ill. 97; Walton v. Follansbee, supra; Williams v. Esten, 179 Ill. 267, 53 N.E. 562; Tiedeman on Real Prop. § 728”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robben v. Obering““Since the grantor and his heirs and assigns are not permitted to deny the title which the grantor by his deed conveys but must defend the same, it would seem by all equitable principles that he or they should.not be allowed to breach by his or their act the covenants of warranty contained in such deed. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.