Copertini v. Oppermann’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1951
14 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 Holman v. Taylor · Schroeder v. Wittram
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The words `good title' import that the owner has the title, legal and equitable, to all the land, and the words `defective title' mean that the party claiming to own has not the whole title, but some other person has title to a part or portion of the land.”
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.