Light v. Zeiter’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1992
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Auerbach v. Healy · Perry v. Luding
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.
““The failure to pay the installment due September 15, 1947, or any part thereof on or before 30 days from and after September 22, 1947, on which date the vendees were served with the notice terminating and cancelling the contract for deed, forfeited all defendants’ rights thereunder and made of such contract a dead instrument and rendered the continued occupation of the premises a trespass.” Light v. Zeiter (1950), 124 Mont. 67, 71 , 219 P.2d 295, 297 .”
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.