Fontana v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 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 Plank v. Summers · Clarke Baridon, Inc. v. Union Asbestos & Rubber Co. · Thanos v. Mitchell · King v. COUNCIL OF ROCKVILLE · Kleiman v. Kolker
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.
““the purpose of an acceleration clause is solely to protect the mortgagee or principal creditor in a deed of trust. If he has good reason to believe that a breach of the debtor’s covenant to pay taxes is so serious as to impair his security, he has a right to foreclose.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The granting or denial of a continuance or postponement is within the sound discretion of the trial court. This rule applies even where the ground for the requested continuance is withdrawal of movant’s counsel from the proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.