Horrigan v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1938
3 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 Furness v. Williams
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where at the time of the conveyance the purchaser has in himself the valid title to the premises, he cannot sue on the covenant it contains, for they only extend to a title existing in a third person, which may defeat the estate granted by the convenantor. They do not embrace”
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.