Lipscomb v. Fuqua’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Lone Star Gas Co. v. X-Ray Gas Co. (1942), Weatherford v. Adams (1926)
2 federal appellate · 72 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.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the vendor who rescinds an executory contract for the sale of land shall return the purchase money paid depends upon the equities of each case. If it would be inequitable for such rescission to occur without restoration of money paid, then it must be restored.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. De Leon v. Aldrete“there had not grown up any condition from which he [meaning Lipscomb] could expect to reap a benefit by the continuance of the contract beyond the time fixed for payment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bush v. Merrill
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.