Watkins v. L Watkins’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

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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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The trustee in bankruptcy had constructive notice of the wife's security interest, even thought she did not perfect her interest by recording it in the county clerk’s office. The divorce judgment — a judicial decree — vested undivided title to the entry property in the husband... Therefore, [under Oklahoma case law] a bona fide purchaser at the time of the bankruptcy filing was on constructive notice of any defects in the ex-husband’s title that were contained in the divorce decree, including the ex-wife’s lien on the property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Alpine Bank v. Moreno (In Re Moreno)

2. “a purchaser of land take the property with constructive notice of whatever appears in the conveyances constituting his chain of title. Moreover, a purchaser from one in whom title has been vested by judicial decree is deemed to have constructive notice of title defects apparent on the face of the record in proceedings in which the decree was entered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Alpine Bank v. Moreno (In Re Moreno)

3. “At the time of bankruptcy filing, the trustee in bankruptcy assumes the position of a bona fide purchaser of real property from the debtor and may avoid any liens on the property that a bona fide purchaser could avoid.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Metro. Life Ins. Co. v. Las Uvas Valley Dairies (In re Las Uvas Valley Dairies)