Quigley v. Acker’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2015
22 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 Carbon County v. Union Reserve Coal Co., Inc. · Daines v. Knight · Wortman v. Griff · Yellowstone County v. Wight · Parrott v. Heller
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 28-1-104, MCA[,] was enacted for the benefit of obligors whose failure to punctually perform would result in loss to them in the matters in respect to which they have contracted .... The intention of the law under this statute is that a forfeiture should not be needlessly enforced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There must be strict pursuance of the course prescribed by the contract in foreclosing the vendee’s rights thereunder, particularly when it involves a forfeiture of the payments made by the vendee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Danelson v. Robinson
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.