Martinez v. Logsdon’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Nearburg v. Yates Petroleum Corp. (1997), ALDRIDGE BY AND THROUGH ALDRIDGE v. Mims (1994)
28 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 Gregg v. Gardner · Southern Union Gas Co. v. Briner Rust Proofing Co. · Bishop v. Beecher · Martinez v. Martinez · Eiferle v. Toppino
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the equitable circumstances surrounding this case precluded defendant from exercising his right to terminate the contract. ... ... Under these circumstances, to permit defendant to terminate the contract, gain title to the property, and retain all payments made, would result in an "unfairness which shocks the conscience of the court."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We disagree. The court correctly considered whether defendant had notice of plaintiffs' claim to the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unfairness which shocks the conscience of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.