Etta Contracting Co. v. Bruning’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1983 · most notably Capital Bldg. Loan Ass'n v. Northern Ins. Co. of N.Y. (1928), In Re Union Cent. Life Ins. Co. (1945)
26 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 Collins v. Desmaret · Harper v. . Dowdney · Dowdney v. . Mayor, Etc., N.Y. City · McCall v. Irion · Washburn v. Green
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * There is a line of cases whereby it may be regarded as settled (certainly, with regard to judicial sales) that, where the purchaser refuses to^ comply with the terms of the adjudication, he is considered as never having been the owner. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is true that article 2586 [2608] C. C., declares that the adjudication is the completion of the sale. But it was never the intention of the lawgiver to say that this' consequence should follow, and the sale should be complete where the purchaser had refused to comply with the terms of the sale on demand, and, had been decreed by the judgment of a competent tribunal to be in default. “Otherwise this would happen; the title would vest in the vendee and would become subject to all legal and judicial mortgages operating upon his property, and the resale would transfer the title of such vendee so encumbered direct' to the new purchaser who would not acquire from the succession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The judgment, in sustaining an exception of no cause of action, appears to us to have been authorized, but we are of opinion that there was error in assigning, as a reason therefor, that the defendant in the case was, under the circumstances disclosed by the petition, to be viewed in the light of a purchaser at auction, and not as a vendee,, or proposed vendee, in a conventional contract of sale, or promise to sell.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pettepher v. Pailet
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.