Mitchell v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1977
12 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 Zirkle v. Ball · Mink v. Whitfield · Ashurst v. Peck · Pearce v. Third Ave. Improvement Co. · Cudd v. Wood
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . when a purchaser knows of the importance to the seller of making prompt payment, and that a default will result in serious loss to him, as when he is told that unless it is made by a certain time the seller cannot carry out his contract of purchase, necessary to enable him to sell as agreed, and makes default under such circumstances, so that his seller must sell to another to enable him to carry out his contract, time is thus made of the essence, and a default without sufficient excuse justifies the seller to rescind and sell to another when it is necessary to do so, in order to save the land from forfeiture by him under a contract in which time is of the essence, and whose terms are known to him to that extent."”
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.