Flinn v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Prestwood v. Carlton (1909), Nelson v. Shelby Manufacturing & Improvement Co. (1893)
27 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 Blakey's Heirs v. Blakey's · Cullum v. Branch of the Bank of Alabama · Scott v. Bush · Sims v. McEwen's Adm'r · Boynton v. Sawyer
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of stipulations that a vendor sells only a partial interest, or such title or estate as he may have in particular lands, the presumption is that the inducement to a vendee to buy is that he may acquire a good and indefeasible title. The right to such title does not spring from the express agreement of the parties; it is given by law; unless the agreement repels its existence.”
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.