Austin v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 1974
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Edward Thompson Co. v. Sawyers · Johnson v. Smith · Koppelmann v. Koppelmann · Yates v. Darby · Lott v. Kaiser
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a deed of conveyance in which the vendor retains a vendor’s lien to secure the payment of the purchase price is but a contract for the purchase of land, and that no title passes thereunder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Babb v. McGee
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.