Barker v. Klingler’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Terrell v. Albaugh (1989), Chapman v. Britton (In Re Britton) (1984)
12 federal appellate ·
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 Buell v. Irwin · Ryder v. Flanders · Bruun v. Cook · Michigan Land & Iron Co. v. Thoney · Hooper v. Van Husan
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.
““It is well settled in this state that the vendee in a land contract is vested with the equitable title in the land, and that the legal title remains in the vendor and is held as security for the payment of the purchase price of the land, upon the payment of which the vendee is entitled to a conveyance of the legal title.””
2 later decisions 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.