Fortner v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2000
7 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 Poltorak v. Jackson Chevrolet Co. · 240 Mo. App. 117 - Boeving v. Vandover · Welch v. Chippewa Sales Co. · Heidner v. Hewitt Chevrolet Co. · New England Box Co. v. Prentiss
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While statutes in some jurisdictions authorize specific performance of contracts for the sale of personal property, in accordance with the general rules, specific performance of a contract for the sale of personal property will not ordinarily be granted, because there is an adequate remedy at law, as in an action for damages for breach of contract. So a contract to convey chattels having a market value cannot be specifically enforced, unless damages in lieu thereof would be inadequate; and a court of equity therefore will not, unless there is some specific reason, specifically enforce a contract for the sale of ordinary articles of commerce, which can at all times be bought in the market, (emphasis ours)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chadwell v. English
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.