American Waterworks Co. of Illinois v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
73 F. 956 · 1896
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1941
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Cowell v. Springs Co. · De Wolf v. Johnson · Santa Clara Female Academy v. Sullivan · Johnson v. Thompson · Calkins v. Copley
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The New Jersey company (the purchaser of the property), we think, is estopped from asserting the invalidity of the mortgages executed by its predecessor, the Illinois company, by virtue of the well-established rule that a purchaser of property who accepts a conveyance thereof which described incumbrances existing thereon, and expressly declares that the conveyance is made subject thereto, will not be allowed to question the validity of such in-cumbrances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.