Cropper v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2007 · most notably Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railroad v. Indianapolis Union Railway Co. (1926), 210 N.J. Super. 589 - Union Cty. Savings Bank v. Johnson (1986)
30 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 Travelers' Insurance Company v. State of Connecticut · Woodworth v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance · Neerman v. Caldwell
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purchaser at a judicial sale enters into a contract with the officer to which the same principles should be applied which are applicable to a similar contract between private parties voluntarily entered into. And the fact that by the terms of the contract the purchaser is not entitled to possession until a future date does not in any way alter the legal or equitable rights of the parties. The legal title does not vest in the purchaser until the delivery of the deed, but in the meantime it is held in trust for him ... But excepting with respect to the time when he is entitled to possession and the fruits of possession, the contract vests the beneficial ownership of the property in such purchaser, and any increase of value or decrease therein inures to him. [Id. at 418-19, 74 A. 987.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It has been consistently held that by a completed contract of sale the vendee acquires an insurable interest in the premises, and this is so, irrespective, in my view, of whether or not he has taken possession. It is not the fact of possession which creates the beneficial equitable right in him; it is by force of the contract. Both the vendor and the vendee have insurable interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is no real distinction in this State in respect to the principles to be applied respecting the rights of the parties between judicial sales and other similar sales voluntarily made between parties,”
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.