Davis v. Cordell’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2017
15 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 Hennessy v. Bacon · Taylor v. . Goelet · Childress v. C. W. Myers Trading Post, Inc. · Speed v. Speed · McMillan v. McMillan
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Respondent was bound by her contract to allow appellant a reasonable time for payment of the purchase price. The just and equitable principle before mentioned required that, before termination of his rights under the contract by the extreme remedy of rescission, appellant be given express, unequivocal and reasonable notice that unless within a specified time he should pay the purchase price in full or pay a definite part of it and make satisfactory arrangement for the time of payment of the balance, his rights would be so terminated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there can be no rescission of a nonexistent contract.”
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.