Self v. Watt’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1988
3 district · 13 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 Rocky Mountain Gold Mines, Inc. v. Gold, Silver & Tungsten, Inc. · American Mortgage Co. v. Logan · Cavos v. Geihsler · Gordon Tiger Mining & Reduction Co. v. Brown · County Court of Phillips v. People
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.
“"An application for a strict foreclosure under an executory contract to shut out the rights of a purchaser is addressed to the sound discretion of the court, and the time allowed the purchaser to make payment of the arrears is largely with the discretion of the trial court. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““At no time during the pendency of this action did the defendant make any showing of a meritorious defense to the instant suit. Neither did he at any time make any tender of the amount due.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burr v. Allard““* * * It was not the duty of the trial court, neither is it ours, to relieve Self of the consequences incident to the mistakes of his then counsel. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burr v. Allard
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.