Davis v. Beury’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2003
17 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 Northridge v. . Moore · Matthews v. LaPrade · Sachs v. Owings · Stuart v. Pennis · Mullen v. Cook
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What is the doctrine in Virginia on the subject of the right of the vendee to recover damages, beyond the return of the purchase money actually paid, with interest, for the breach of such a contract by the vendor? “The answer is that for a vendee to be entitled, under the doctrine in Virginia on that subject, to recover any damages, beyond the return of the purchase money actually paid, with interest, for the breach of a contract by the vendor to convey the title contracted to be conveyed at the time fixed for the completion of the contract, the vendee must prove that the vendor either acted in bad faith in originally undertaking to convey such title at such time, or that, since the undertaking and on or before the time fixed for the completion of the contract, he has voluntarily disabled himself from making the conveyance, or that he was able at such time to make the conveyance contracted for and wilfully neglected or refused to do so.” (Emphasis supplied). ( 134 Va. 339 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Snider“If the title fail, the purchaser cannot recover against a vendor acting in good faith the value of improvements placed by him on the premises. If he expends money in improvements when he is uncertain about the title, he does so at his own risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the vendor is innocently mistaken as to the goodness of his title and the contract contains no warranty of ownership, express or implied, it has been held that the purchaser cannot recover such expenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.