Brewer v. Peatross’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2021
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Boothe v. Wyatt
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An eneum-brance may be said to be any right that a third person holds in land which constitutes a burden or limitation upon the rights of the fee title holder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The question as to whether there is an encumbrance on [the] property must depend upon the facts as they exist at the time the warranty deed is delivered, and not upon subsequent occurrences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such that the grantor either had or should have had knowledge that there was such a burden”
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.