Brewer v. Sowers’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Trotter v. Lewis (1946), Romm v. Flax (1995)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 37 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 Guyer v. Warren · Engler v. Garrett · Lawson v. Mullinix · Thomas v. Gottlieb, Bauernschmidt, Straus Brewing Co. · Dixon v. Dixon
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In Brantly on Contracts, page 330, the rule is thus announced: 'When the option is given for the purchase of land, if the holder of it duly signifies his purpose to buy, or tenders the price, if that be required, he is entitled to specific performance of the contract, and it is no objection that the original agreement was lacking in mutuality or was not signed by the promisee. When he exercises the option, the agreement becomes binding upon both parties, and either may demand specific performance or sue for damages for a breach of the contract.’ ” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . (T)hey have no one to blame but themselves for not getting the purchase money sooner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reis v. Sparks
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.