Melin v. Woolley’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2009
16 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Jackson v. Torrence · Tobin v. Larkin · Olson v. Lovell · Cochran v. Blout · Naylor v. Stene
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule as to the purchaser is that, though he cannot have a partial interest forced upon him, yet if he entered into the contract in ignorance of the vendor’s incapacity to give him, the whole, and chooses afterward to take as much as he can get, he has generally, ... a right to insist on that, with compensation for the defect; . . . There is nothing in the general rule of which the vendor can complain. It is his own fault if he has assumed obligations which he cannot fulfill. The vendor is not compelled to convey anything he did not agree to convey; and the vendee pays for what he gets, according to the rate established by the agreement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Plebuck v. Barnes
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.