Clark v. Sayers’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 128 W. Va. 94 - Johnston v. Terry (1945), 95 W. Va. 164 - Watson v. Buckhannon River Coal Co. (1923)
1 federal appellate · 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 20 W. Va. 398 - Campbell v. Fetterman's Heirs · Crumlish v. Railroad Co. · Osborne v. Endicott · Raines v. Walker · Joeckel v. Easton
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In most states the covenant of general warranty is held not only to estop the grantor and his heirs from setting up an after-acquired title, but also, actually to transfer the estate subsequently acquired, as if it had passed by the deed in the first instance.””
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.