Hake v. Groff’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1978
6 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 Schroeder v. Gemeinder · Tracy v. . Albany Exchange Co. · Stetler v. North Branch Transit Co. · C. Callahan Co. v. Michael · McAdoo v. Callum Bros.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘First privilege of buying’ is also equivalent to a first option to buy. Schroeder v. Gemeinder, 10 Nev. 355 . “In the instant case the language ‘first refusal to purchase’ gave the lessee the first option. This option he might exercise at any time during the period of his lease unless the lessor has an opportunity to sell to another at which time, upon notice of that fact, the lessee must elect whether he will purchase the property. But if no such notice is given he has the entire term in which to exercise his option, and if he does so the lessor is bound to sell.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Considering every provision of the lease in connection with the circumstances and conditions under which it was executed, we are of the opinion that the plaintiff’s ‘first refusal’ to purchase depended upon the defendant’s decision to sell in the event that he decided to remain in California. If he desired to sell the plaintiff was to have the first opportunity to buy for a consideration of $9,000.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The question is, What did they mean by the term ‘first refusal? ’ As the plaintiff construes it, ‘first refusal’ means that he is to have the option to buy during the term of his lease. As the defendants understand it, the plaintiff is given the first opportunity to buy providing the defendants desire to sell.””
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.