Talbert v. Seek’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably D'AOUST v. Diamond (2012), Plaza Corp. v. Alban Tractor Co. (2001)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 Vincent v. Palmer · Hanover Fire Insurance v. Alexander Brown & Sons · Grauel v. Rohe · Great United Realty Co. v. Lewis · Gibula v. Sause
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all sales made under the authority of a decree of a court of equity, the court is the vendor, acting for and in behalf of all parties interested. The contract of sale is a transaction between the court as vendor, and the purchaser; and the contract is never regarded as consummated until it has received the sanction of the court.... ” “Before ratification the transaction is merely an offer to purchase which has not been accepted.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not pass the title unless it is ratified and confirmed. The [c]ourt is the vendor acting through its agent the trustee.... He reports to the [c]ourt the offer of the bidder for the property; if the offer is accepted, the sale is ratified, and thereupon, and not sooner, the contract of sale becomes complete. Before ratification the transaction is merely an offer to purchase which has not been accepted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.