McKeon v. Crump’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 2022
4 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 8 Utah 2d 370 - Andreasen v. Hansen · Angelos v. First Interstate Bank of Utah · Close v. Blumenthal · Hansen v. Department of Financial Institutions · Cook v. Covey-Ballard Motor Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is pertinent to observe that the attempt to enforce this clause of the contract is almost invariably against a purchaser who has been induced to sign it and deposit money under the impression that its forfeiture will be the extent of his loss if he decides not to buy the property. And the suit is by a seller who wants to be sure to keep the money in hand, and also seek additional relief. This clause is for the benefit of the seller. He will obviously always choose the option to his advantage and to the disadvantage of the buyer. Under those cireumstances the clause should be strictly applied against the seller and he should be held to meet its requirements with exactness."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an affirmative duty to release their interest in the deposit money to the [buyers] before they filed their suit for damages”
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.