Ojeda De Toca v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Stewart Title Guaranty Co. v. Sterling (1992), First Title Co. of Waco v. Garrett (1993)
2 federal appellate · 25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Buchanan v. Burnett and Wife · Westland Oil Development Corp. v. Gulf Oil Corp. · Crimmins v. Lowry · Graham v. Roder · Taylor v. Harrison
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An instrument that is properly recorded in the proper county is notice to all persons of the existence of the instrument.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Title to [appellant’s] house is not in issue, and we perceive no valid reason to allow [appellees] to escape damages liability arising out of fraud or conduct proscribed by DTPA § 17.46(b)(23). There are defenses to a deceptive trade practices action ... but imputed notice under real property recording statutes is not one of them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Texas courts have never held that a purchaser's failure to search the deed records would bar his fraud action against the seller.”
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.