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← 101 Mich. App. 754 - Godwin v. Lindbert

101 Mich. App. 754 - Godwin v. Lindbert’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
9
states following
April 2009
most recently cited

25 state decisions

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.

  1. “A trial court should enforce the equities of the parties in such a manner as to put them as nearly as possible in the position that they would have occupied had the conveyance of the real property occurred when required by the contract.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “This additional cost is a predictable consequence arising out of delay in conveying title.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.