Williams v. Cotten’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
November 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kempner v. Cohn · McIlvenny v. Horton · Williams v. Cotten · McGregor v. Echols
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In actions against a vendee on a contract for the purchase of real estate, we had supposed it to be a well settled rule that when a party agreed to purchase real estate at a certain stipulated price and subsequently refuses to perform his contract, the loss in the bargain constitutes the measure of damages, and that is the difference between the price fixed in the contract and the salable value of the land at the time the contract was to be executed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnston v. Curtis
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.