Taussig v. Van Deusen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 state decisions

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Persons who have a possible interest in real estate are proper, though not necessary, parties to a suit by those claiming adversely to them against those to whom they have contracted to sell the property, to determine the validity of the vendors’ title. [Citing authorities.] As between vendors and vendees, in cases of specific performance of real estate, as a general and almost universal rule, the Court is bound ‘ “to ascertain and determine, as best it may, what the law is, and to take that to be the law which it has so ascertained and determined.” ’ [Citing authorities.] The possibility that the Court may, at some time in the future, when other parties are before it, disregard its own precedent, and decide the same question, depending on the same facts or different facts, in a different way is so remote that it should not be permitted to arrest the. development and interfere with the salability of land, possibly for a long period of time. [Citing authorities.]” Id. at 441-42 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schlosser v. Creamer