Zirkle v. Hendon’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1961
15 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 Carver v. Eads · Wilkinson v. May · McCrory v. Guyton · Waller v. Janney
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * If the purchase price is $20 per acre, and a part is to be paid to one person and a part to another, clearly one portion is as much a part of the purchase price as the other. “The vendor’s lien exists and is enforced, not only where the consideration is to be paid to the vendor, but also where it is to be paid to a third person by or with his consent. ‘Otherwise, contravening the intention of the parties, and violating equity and good conscience, the vendee would keep the land without paying the purchase money.’ * * * “ * * * The decree of the court will be reversed, and one will be here rendered overruling the demurrers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winston v. Ahlman
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.