Bear v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably R. E. L. McCaskill Co. v. Dekle (1924), 106 Ill. App. 3d 727 - Hanson v. Duffy (1982)
26 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 Attebery v. Blair · Morgan v. Smith · Pond v. Ennis · Zempel v. Hughes · Corbus v. Teed
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While the general rule is that upon the breach of a contract for the sale and purchase of real estate the person injured thereby has the choice of remedies either to sue for specific performance or damages, and cannot, in general, obtain both in relation to the same transaction, yet the rule is also recognized that a party may have specific performance generally, and damages for acts which do not admit of a decree for specific performance. (Waterman on Specific Performance, sec. 5, and authorities cited.)"”
2 later decisions 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.