Modrok v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is a settled rule of property that circumstances . . . which suggest outstanding equities in third parties, impose a duty upon the purchaser to make a reasonable investigation into the existence of a claim. Given suspicious facts, the status of bona fide purchaser turns upon whether there was a prudent inquiry into their import.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rosenberg v. Smidt · Gottstein v. Kraft

2. “A suit'for forcible [entry and] de-tainer . . . substitutes the authority of the courts for private force to compel a citizen wrongfully in possession of real property to surrender it to another with a superior claim.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vinson v. Hamilton · McDowell v. Lenarduzzi

3. “In an action to recover the possession on the land, tenement, or other real property where the entry is forcible or when the possession is unlawfully held by force, there shall be no inquiry into the merits of the title.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. Robinson