Strong v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1953
16 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 Strong v. Moore · Lewy v. Wilkinson · First Nat. Bank v. Bach · Cranston v. California Ins. · Somers v. Hanson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are two fallacious contentions advanced by the plaintiffs as the basis of their grievance. The first is that they had a contract of sale of the property involved, whereas in fact, according to the documents which they propound and attach as exhibits to their complaint, they only had options to buy the property. In neither of the documents quoted do they agree to buy the property. Having paid a valuable consideration for the option, they could have enforced it and procured title only by paying according to its terms, but they did not. These same documents were construed by this court as options in Strong v. Moore, 105 Or. 12 ( 207 Pac. 179 , 23 A. L. R. 1217), in an option by Mr. Justice Harris. Nowhere, in either of the instruments, do the plaintiffs or their representative agree to buy. At any time they could have abandoned their option and none of the defendants could have compelled them to pay for or take title to the realty involved. Hence the plaintiffs never had any interest in the property at any time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richanbach v. Ruby
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.