Tarpinian v. Wheaton’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2014
10 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 Beka v. Lithium Corporation of America · Reid v. Gorman · Phillis v. Gross · Jorgensen v. Jorgensen · Foster v. Lowe
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled that a vendor, after execution and delivery of such a contract for deed, holds the legal title in trust for the benefit of the purchaser, and under an obligation to convey when the purchaser has acquired a right to be vested with title. Reid v. Gorman, 37 S.D. 314 , 158 N.W. 780 ; and Phillis v. Gross, 32 S.D. 438 , 143 N.W. 373 . Elsewhere it has been held that if he thereafter assigns the contract for deed, but retains the title, he thereupon holds the title as trustee for both the purchaser and the assignee of the contract. Foster v. Lowe, 131 Wis. 54 , 110 N.W. 829 ; 92 C.J.S. Vendor & Purchaser, § 310b. (1), p. 190; 55 Am. Jur., Vendor and Purchaser, § 450, p. 855.”
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.