Garrett v. Fernauld’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2015
1 district · 10 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This is not a case where one of two equally innocent parties must suffer by the act of a third person. It is a case where a purchaser of land suffers because he did not require the surrender or cancellation of, or proof of the satisfaction by or from, the real owner of the mortgage obligations of which he knew, thereby causing a loss to himself. The loss was caused, ... by the failure to have the mortgage surrendered or to ascertain whether it had been assigned before its maturity."”
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.