233 Cal. App. 2d 297 - Venable v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2012
2 federal appellate · 10 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 59 Cal. 2d 35 - Roseleaf Corp. v. Chierighino · 45 Cal. 2d 462 - Freedland v. Greco · 41 Cal. 2d 193 - Brown v. Jensen · 59 Cal. 2d 121 - Bargioni v. Hill · 229 Cal. App. 2d 549 - Heckes v. Sapp
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although there is no clear-cut test for determining when an earnest money contract becomes a security device, the test should be one of intent, which may be evidenced by such factors as the length of time the contract is to run, change in possession of the property, the number of installments to be made under the contract, the per cent [sic] payable under the contract contrasted to other financing methods which may be involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No deficiency judgment shall lie in any event after any sale of real property for failure of the purchaser to complete his contract of sale, or under a deed of trust, or mortgage, given to the vendor to secure payment of the balance of the purchase price of real property....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for a purchase money mortgage or deed of trust the security alone can be looked to for recovery of the debt.”
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.