Lapke v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2020
7 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 United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Doheny · Mitchell v. Banking Corp. of Montana · Stafford v. Love · Doheny v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well established rule relating to the law on the payment of earnest money that the broker is acting as agent for the vendor. If the sale is completed, the money must be turned over to the vendor. If the sale is not completed, the money must be returned to the vendee. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mader v. James
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.