Godfrey v. Rosenthal’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1968
4 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 Vought v. . Williams · Wesley v. Eells · Black Hills Nat'l Bank v. Kellogg · Frazier v. Boggs · Isaacs v. Skrainka
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agreement for the sale of property cannot be specifically enforced in favor of a seller who cannot give to the buyer a title free from reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dolan v. Hudson
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.