Spiro v. Corpora’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1973
6 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 Mathews Bros. v. Bernius · Boisseau v. Vallon & Jordano, Inc. · R. J. & B. F. Camp Lumber Co. v. Tedder · Dauterive v. West India Transportation Corp. · Barry v. Guiffria
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * it is obvious that the correctness of the respective contentions of the parties cannot be established except by a suit for specific performance, and thus far neither party to the contract has seen fit to institute such an action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The broker, in such a case, in the absence of notice to the contrary, has the right to act upon the assumption that his principal has a marketable title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leaman v. Rauschkolb“we experience difficulty in attempting to reconcile it with the language used by the court in the later case of Boisseau v. Vallon Jordano, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leaman v. Rauschkolb
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.