115 Cal. App. 3d 369 - Kosloff v. Castle’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 37 Cal. 2d 16 - Freedman v. Rector, Wardens & Vestrymen of St. Matthias Parish · Boone v. Templeman · Barkis v. Scott · 5 Cal. 3d 809 - MacFadden v. Walker · 135 Cal. App. 2d 720 - Petersen v. Ridenour
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persuasive arguments that installment land sale contracts should be treated as security devices substantially on a par with mortgages and deeds of trust, and that therefore `the law governing those security devices should be adopted with appropriate modifications in determining the remedies for breaches of installment contracts.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“complete the land sale reform initiated by Barkis v. Scott, supra, 34 Cal.2d 116 , and ending prematurely with MacFadden v. Walker, supra, 5 Cal.3d 809 , by ... holding that the land sale contract is a mortgage under Civil Code section 2924”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an agreement wherein one party agrees to convey title to real property to another party upon the satisfaction of specified conditions set forth in the contract....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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