204 Mo. App. 55 - Massey v. Butts’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1970
9 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 Cain v. Garvey · Curtis v. Sexton · Martin v. Allen · Coble v. Denisen
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * by such repudiation and refusal to perform [the buyer] forfeited his right to the return of the earnest money, under the clause of the contract providing that if the sale be not closed within the time specified, `owing to the failure or neglect of the purchaser to comply with the terms' `of the contract' `the earnest money is to be forfeited to the seller.'"”
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.