Duvall v. Walton’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1999
11 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 Proctor v. Hearne · Peacock Hotel, Inc. v. Shipman · Mitchell v. Mason · Mizell Live Stock Co. v. J. J. McCaskill Co. · Florida Ass'n v. Stevens
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a real estate transaction a vendor has the right to sell at the best price he can obtain for his property, and a representation by him that he will not sell for less than a stated sum, knowing that he would take less rather than miss the sale, is not a representation of a material fact that will justify the rescission and cancellation of a contract.”
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.