Eylar v. Eylar’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Marshburn v. Stewart (1923), Truman v. Deason (1987)
5 federal appellate · 97 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.
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That all persons who may deal with persons claiming land may have the means of knowing in whom titles to land rest, and that no one may buy what appears to be a good title, when another person may have better right not made public, the law requires all persons, for the protection of innocent purchasers and creditors, to register their titles to land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It would seem that the sole office which possession performs, in the matter of notice, is to put a person desiring to purchase upon inquiry, and that it has no effect in determining what the inquiry shall be, or of whom it shall be made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Downing v. Jeffrey“prosecuted as far as a prudent man, having a due regard to the rights of others and to his own protection, would be bound to prosecute it.”
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.