Hawks v. Sparks’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2009
20 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 Raney v. Barnes Lumber Corp. · Womble v. Gunter · Griscom v. Childress · Stevens v. Mirakian · Darling v. Cumming's Ex'or
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the seller is unable to convey the entire estate in the land that he has contracted to sell, the buyer may compel the seller to convey whatever estate he may have and the buyer will be allowed an abatement of the purchase price to compensate him for the deficiency in title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Firebaugh v. Hanback“pecific performance of a contract is not a matter of right, but rests in the discretion of the trial court to be granted or refused according to established principles and the facts of each case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Firebaugh v. Hanback
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.