DeShields v. Broadwater’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Standard Fire Insurance v. Berrett (2006), Greenpoint Mortgage Funding, Inc. v. Schlossberg (2005)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 28 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 St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Camp · Houghton v. County Comm'rs of Kent Co. · Fisher v. Shropshire · Houghton v. COUNTY COM'RS OF KENT CTY. · Wm. Skinner & Sons' Ship-Building & Dry-Dock Co. v. Houghton
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A purchase made of property actually in litigation, pendente lite, for a valuable consideration, and without any express or implied notice in point of fact, affects the purchaser in the same manner as if he had such notice; and he will accordingly be bound by the judgment or decree in the suit.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen the vendee contracts to buy and the vendor to sell, though legal title has not yet passed, in equity the vendee becomes the owner of the land, the vendor of the purchase money. In equity the vendee has a real interest and the vendor a personal interest. Equity treats the executory contract as a conversion, whereby an equitable interest in the land is secured to the purchaser for whom the vendor holds the legal title in trust. This is the doctrine of equitable conversion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“effect of such a contract is to vest the equitable ownership of the property in the vendee, subject to the vendor’s lien for unpaid purchase money, and to leave only the legal title in the vendor pending the fulfilment of the contract and the formal conveyance of the estate. The right of the vendee to have the title conveyed upon full compliance with the contract of purchase is not impaired by the fact that the vendor, subsequently to the execution of the contract, incurred a debt upon which judgment was recovered.”
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.