Aitken v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
March 2005
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · Garrett v. Nissen Corporation · Frederick v. Younger Van Lines · Mozert v. Noeding · Proctor v. Waxler
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A vendor [CPAC], innocent of conscious deception, is entitled to expect, and therefore has reason to believe, that his vendee [Heartland or Hawkeye] will discover a condition which would be disclosed by such an inspection as the vendee should make before buying the land and taking possession of it or before throwing it open to the entry of others. A vendor, therefore, is not required to exercise care to disclose dangerous conditions or to have an ordinarily retentive memory as to their existence, unless the condition is one which such an inspection by the vendee would not discover or, although the condition would be so discovered, the vendor realizes the risk involved therein and has reason to believe that the vendee will not realize it.”
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.