Whitaker v. Langdon’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2012
2 district · 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 Williams v. Peyton's Lessee · Bates v. Adams · Brachey v. Peddicord · Bailey's Widow & Heirs v. See · Goodrum's Guardian v. Kelsey
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fundamentally necessary that a conveyance shall use the specific names of its grantors in the body of the instrument in order to pass valid title out of such grantors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Surti
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.