Gaines v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The evidence shows that the lands In controversy cost about six thousand dollars, and that there was loaned on them as security two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. The deed executed by Whittaker to Mrs. Saunders was a quitclaim deed and was recorded, and it states that the consideration received for the lands was five dollars. Was not this fact sufficient to put any prudent man on inquiry? Is it possible that any sane man, having good title to land worth two thousand or six thousand dollars, would sell it for five dollars? The question suggests its own answer. Add to this the fact than the conveyance executed was a quitclaim deed, and the conclusion that Mrs. Saunders did not acquire a good and valid title, in the absence of an explanation, would be irresistible. It was at least sufficient to have put appellants on inquiry, which, if they prosecuted with ordinary diligence, would doubtless have led to actual notice of the facts as shown by the evidence in this case. But they prosecuted no inquiry, and it follows that they are not bonafide purchasers without notice. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dunn v. Barnum