Schechtman v. Grobbel’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2006
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 Home Owners' Loan Corp. v. Wilkes, Et Ux. · 82 So. 2d 736 - St. Martin v. McGee
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.
“[C]learly written provisions of contracts entered into by ordinary men should be construed in the light of common understanding.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“providing that escrow tax money payments, along with the monthly mortgage payments, be made to the mortgagees. After a time, the mortgagors paid only the monthly mortgage installments to the mortgagees, and paid the escrow tax monies to a special tax account which they opened in a bank. The trial court, in denying the foreclosure, found: the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“together with and in addition to the regular monthly payment a sum equal to one-twelfth of the current annual taxes”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Lachenmeier
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.