Bredesen v. Nickolay’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2003
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Sterns v. Highland Hotel Co. · Dolvin v. American Harrow Co. · Work v. Welsh · Abbott v. Moldestad · Buckley v. Patterson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Specific performance of a contract to convey real estate is not a matter of absolute right. If enforcement would be unconscionable or inequitable, performance will not be decreed. Or if the contract as written is the result of mistake so fundamental that the minds of the parties have never met, or if an unconscionable advantage has been gained by mistake or misapprehension of the party defendant, and the parties can be restored to their original status, a-court administering equity will not enforce the contract.””
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.