10 Utah 2d 142 - McMullin v. Shimmin’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2022
11 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 8 Utah 2d 370 - Andreasen v. Hansen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such [election] is exercised by retention of the down payment. The clause tells the parties that the seller need only retain, the sum to exercise his right to keep it The seller chooses the language. His retention becomes meaningful when he claims the buyer has breached the contract and refuses to go through with it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McKeon v. Crump
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.