Sofio v. Glissmann’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Eggers v. Rittscher (1995), Tedco Development Corp. v. Overland Hills, Inc. (1978)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 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 O'Brien v. Fricke · Sopcich v. Tangeman · Gatchell v. Henderson · Stanford Motor Co. v. Westman · Kear v. Hausmann
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The failure or inabffity or refusal to carry out the terms of the contract at the time when performance is due will ordinarily be grounds for refusing specific performance....”
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.