Beason v. Griff’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1992
14 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 Richter v. Walker · Sutter v. General Petroleum Corp. · Royer v. Carter · Johnson v. Clark · Linberg v. Stanto
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.
““ ‘The general rule of damages on failure of the vendee to take the property purchased, and pay for the same, would be the actual loss sustained by the vendor thereby; which would ordinarily be the difference between the actual contract price and the actual value of the land at the time of the breach, if the property shall have declined in value. ’ ””
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.