Keaster v. Bozik’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2022
23 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 Steen v. Rustad · Rogers v. Relyea · Johnson v. Elliot · Rude v. Levy · Allen v. Rakes
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he option contract as written and signed by the parties contains no ambiguity and is sufficiently definitive to be capable of specific enforcement when one looks solely to the four corners of the instrument. The option contract contains a legal property description, expresses the consideration for the grant of the option, states the terms for a revocation, provides the time in which the option is exercisable, reveals the purchase price included in the amount of down payment and annual payment, and states the interest rate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDonald v. Cosman““[I]t is well settled that absolute certainty in every detail is not a prerequisite for specific performance. Gropp v. Lotton (1972), 160 Mont. 415 , 503 P.2d 661 ; Steen v. Rustad (1957), 132 Mont. 96 , 313 P.2d 1014. Those matters which are collateral or which go to the performance of the contract are not essential and need not be expressed in the contract. Steen v. Rustad, supra; Johnson v. Elliot (1950), 123 Mont. 597 , 218 P.2d 703 .””
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.