Miller v. Kemp’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2015
13 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 Acer v. . Westcott · Auld v. Norwood · Slocum v. Bracy · Flanary v. Kane · Sale v. Swann
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Why should any one be required to look behind the recorded title and run down the preliminary contracts to discover that the parties to a solemn deed have made a mistake?”) (quoting Donaldson v. Levine, 93 Va. 472 , 25 S.E. 541 ); cf. 6 Corbin, supra, § 1319 (evidence of collateral promises is admissible as long as it is not offered”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The very fact that the final instrument of conveyance, the deed, differs from the original contract and was accepted by both [parties] is evidence of a change in their original agreement.”); Woodson, 128 Va. at 656 , 104 S.E. at 795 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the deed is tendered by the vendor as a full performance of the contract it is immaterial that the purchaser protested against accepting it as such.””
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.