Bartos v. Czerwinski’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1986
4 federal appellate · 1 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 Vought v. . Williams · Ogooshevitz v. Arnold · Brauer v. Laughlin · Williams v. Bricker · Laubengayer v. Rohde
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A title may be regarded as unmarketable if a reasonably careful and prudent man, familiar with the facts, would refuse to accept the title in the ordinary course of business. It is not necessary that the title be actually bad in order to render it unmarketable. It is sufficient if there is such a doubt or uncertainty as may reasonably form the basis of litigation. * * * A purchaser of property entitled to a ‘marketable title’ may not be required to accept a conveyance if the title is in such condition that he may be required to defend litigation challenging his possession and interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKnight v. Broedell
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.