Paul v. McPherrin’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 1970
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 Baldwin v. Sager · Mason v. Mullahy · McCracken v. West · Gerson v. Pool · Goldsborough v. . Turner
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.
““As a general rule, the purchaser is not entitled to protection if he receives notice before he acquires title by conveyance, even though before notice he has paid the entire purchase price. And the same principle applies a fortiori to a case where a part payment has been made before notice. As a consequence of the foregoing propositions, it has been deduced as a general rule in the United States that, if the purchaser has not obtained the legal title before notice of the prior equity, even though by contract and payment without notice he has acquired an equitable title, he cannot, after notice, acquire the legal estate and thereby defeat or postpone the prior equity, unless his own equity is of superior merit; but in order to produce such a result, he must acquire not only the equitable, but the legal title, without notice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.