Scarmardo v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 2017
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Duhig v. Peavy-Moore Lumber Co. · Pich v. Lankford · Body v. McDonald · Pich v. Lankford
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] deed purporting to convey a fee simple or a lesser definite estate in land and containing covenants of general warranty of title or of ownership will operate to estop the grantor from asserting an after-acquired title or interest in the land, or against the estate which the deed purports to convey, as against the grantee and those claiming under him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the deed is so interpreted the warranty is breached at the very time of the execution and delivery of the deed, for the deed warrants the title to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dragon v. Trial
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.