Bostwick v. . Beach’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 70 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We entertain no doubt that where the executors of the will of a deceased person, empowered by the terms of the will to sell his real estate, enter into an executory contract for such sale, performance of such Contract may be enforced in equity, at the suit of the purchaser.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sanford v. Story · Sanford v. Story

2. ““ If a seller of land is not able to comply fully with the contract, either in respect of the quantity of land or the extent of the estate, the court will, at the election of the buyer, decree specific performance of the contract, so far as the same can be performed, awarding compensation to the purchaser by way of abatement from the purchase-price, for any deficiency in title, quantity of land, or other matters touching the estate, the value of which are capable of being ascertained, and thus compensated without doing injustice to either party.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Polisiuk v. Mayers

3. “The purchaser is entitled to the rents and profits from the time when, according to the terms of the contract, possession should have been delivered, or, if the vendor has remained in possession, he is chargeable with the value of the use and occupation for the same period, and the purchase is chargeable with interest on the purchase money, if it remained in his hands unappropriated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bateman v. . Hopkins