Doering v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Schneider v. Dumbarton Developers, Inc. (1985), Chirichella v. Erwin (1973)
3 federal appellate · 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 Soehnlein v. Pumphrey · Loughran v. Ramsburg · Coster v. Arrow Building & Loan Ass'n · Morris v. Wilson · Decrette v. Bonaparte
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an approximation of what the parties regard as a reasonable time.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[SJince a time, presumed to be reasonable by all parties was fixed in the contract, [the vendor was] not obliged to wait indefinitely after that time had expired. It cannot be reasonable or just for a court to require [the vendor] to be put at such a disadvantage. That is not what is meant by saying that time is not of the essence of a contract for the sale of real estate. It does not mean that one party can rely upon the principle to do nothing and embarrass the other. It means that neither party will be held strictly to the time limited, not that either party will be at liberty to disregard it entirely. [ 187 Md. at 491 , 50 A.2d at 556 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The doctrine is fundamental that a party seeking the remedy of specific performance, and also the party who desires to maintain an objection founded upon the other’s laches, must show himself to have been ‘ready, desirous, prompt, and eager.’ * * * If the vendee has not unduly delayed, if the vendor is not hurt, then the decree will be granted. But if these elements do not appear, the equity court will decline to interfere and will leave the parties to their legal remedies.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.