Heifner v. Bradford’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Corban v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., Et Al. (2016), Blackstone v. Moore (Slip Opinion) (2018)
33 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 364 So. 2d 439 - City of Miami v. St. Joe Paper Co. · 35 Ohio App. 2d 205 - Semachko v. Hopko · Allen v. Farmers Union Co-Operative Royalty Co. · Kittrell v. Clark
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such record marketable title shall be subject to: “(A) All interests and defects which are inherent in the muniments of which such chain of record title is formed; provided that a general reference in such muniments, or any of them, to easements, use restrictions, or other interests created prior to the root of title shall not be sufficient to preserve them, unless specific identification be made therein of a recorded title transaction which creates such easement, use restriction, or other interest; and provided that possibilities of reverter, and rights of entry or powers of termination for breach of condition subsequent, which interests are inherent in the muniments of which such chain of record title is formed and which have existed for forty years or more, shall be preserved and kept effective only in the manner provided in section 5301.51 of the Revised Code;"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Such record marketable title shall be subject to . . . [a]ny interest arising out of a title transaction which has been recorded subsequent to the effective date of the root of title . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“upon which he relies as a basis for the marketability of his title.”
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.