Griscom v. Childress’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Raney v. Barnes Lumber Corp. (1954), Seaboard Ice Co. v. Lee (1957)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 Lowther Oil Co. v. Miller-Sibley Oil Co. · Dyer v. Duffy · Hurt v. Jones · Scott v. Albemarle Horse Show Ass'n · Walker v. Henderson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No principle of equity is more generally approved than that the specific performance of a contract is not a matter of absolute right but rests in a sound judicial discretion. In order for a litigant to avail himself of this extraordinary remedy, he must show that he has been able, ready, prompt, eager and willing to perform the contract on his part. He must not have remained quiet or held himself aloof so as to enforce or abandon the contract as events might prove advantageous. * *” Griscom v. Childress, 183 Va. 42, 47-8 , 31 S.E.2d 309, 312 . Reutt v. Jordan, 207 Va. 869 , 153 S.E.2d 197 ; 17 Mich. Jur., Specific Performance, § 27, p. 46. .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cranford v. Hubbard
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.