Wilson v. Beaty’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1983
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 Cartwright v. Trueblood · Stanton v. . Miller · Zimmerman v. Rhoads · Huff v. Shepard · 9 Tex. Civ. App. 491 - Munk v. Weidner
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.
““The certainty required in a contract which renders it subject to an action for specific performance is a reasonable certainty, and the equitable rule would not require a strained and unreasonable construction of the contract solely for the purpose of defeating the remedy and destroying the right.” (Syl. IT 4.) “A contract is certain and definite in its terms if it leaves no reasonable doubt as to what the parties intended and no reasonable doubt of the specific thing equity is called upon to have performed.” (Syl. ¶ 3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eakin v. Wycoff
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.