Schwab v. Cornell’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Nesbitt v. Erie Coach Co. (1964), Walters v. Ditzler (1967)
7 federal appellate · 36 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 Lewey v. H. C. Fricke Coke Co. · Noonan v. Pardee
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The statute provides that such actions as the present shall be brought ‘within six years next after the cause of such actions or suit, and not after’ . . . If the circumstances are such that a man’s eyes should have been open to what is occurring, then the statute begins to run from the time when he could have seen, but if by concealment, through fraud or otherwise, a screen has been erected by his adversary which effectually obscures the view of what has happened, the statute remains quiescent until actual knowledge arises ... In the instant case, we regard the letter of defendant, in which he informed the plaintiff that his title was ‘entirely clear of liens,’ as such an actual misrepresentation of the true situation as prevented the running of the statute until plaintiff discovered by notice of the sale of his property what was the actual situation, — that his title was not clear as defendant represented it to be, but encumbered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the circumstances are such that a man's eyes should have been open to what is occurring, then the statute begins to run from the time when he could have seen, but if by concealment, through fraud or otherwise, a screen has been erected by his adversary which effectually obscures the view of what has happened, the statute remains quiescent until actual knowledge arises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the title [is] entirely clear of liens with the exception of certain rights guaranteed the telephone company and”
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.