Wheeler v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Dooley v. Weil (1982), Pembroke Pembroke v. Peninsular Terminal Co. (1933)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Lincoln Trust Co. v. Williams Building Corp. · Wetmore v. . Bruce · Shouse v. Doane · Frazier v. Boggs · Vance v. Jacksonville Realty & Mortgage Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a vendor of real property expressly or by implication agrees to convey a good title or marketable title, that undertaking is discharged only by the conveyance of a title unincumbered and free from reasonable doubt as to any question of law or fact necessary to sustain its validity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peters v. Spielvogel
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.