Soule v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 1982 · most notably Snelling v. Adair (1940), Cook v. Martin (1938)
40 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 Simmons v. Saul · Griffing v. Taft · Taylor v. Allen · Cole v. Richmond · Webb v. Keller
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The obligation of joint vendors to maintain the vendee in peaceable possession is an indivisible one, though their obligation to respond in money for the purchase price is divisible. Smith v. Elliot, 9 Rob. 3 ; Schultz v. Ryan, 131 La. 78 , 59 So. 21 , and cases there cited."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.