Long v. Chandler’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1950
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 Minge v. Green · Sternberger v. . McGovern · Aiple-Hemmelmann Real Estate Co. v. Spelbrink · Godwin v. Collins · Cowan v. Kane
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.
““ The complainant is entitled to a decree for specific performance by the husband alone, but the defendant will not be required, as prayed for by the complainant, to convey the land with an abatement of the price, or with a bond of indemnity to the complainant to protect him against any claim of the wife of the defendant in case she survives her husband, because (1) it does not appear that the parties to the contract cannot be put in statu quo; (2) the quantum or value of the wife’s right and interest is not now calculable with sufficient accuracy to justify an abatement of the price; and (3) to require the seller to give a bond of indemnity with surety would be making a new contract for the parties and not enforcing the one made by them. As the complainant cannot have the relief asked for, the bill is to be dismissed and the complainant left to pursue any other remedy he may have at law.’’”
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.