Fritz v. Pusey’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1954 · most notably Westerlund v. Black Bear Mining Co. (1913), Winn v. Taylor (1920)
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Prescott v. Trueman · Clark v. Estate of Conroe · State v. Murphy · Porter v. Bradley and Wife · Russ v. Steele
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An Encumbrance,’ within the meaning of the covenant against incumbrances, includes any right or interest in the land Avhich may subsist in third persons to the diminution of the value of the land, but consistent Avith the passing of the fee by the conveyance. Hence, an outstanding lease is an incumbranca””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brass v. Vandecar““The underlying principle is that the damages should be estimated according to the real injury arising from the existence of the incumbrance, which, in the case supposed, is presumably and ordinarily the value of the use of the premises for the time during which the vendee has been deprived of such use.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. Detlaff
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.