O'Brien v. LeGette’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1995
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 Beatty v. Vining · Morgan v. O'Bannon & Julien · Smart v. Bibbins · Acetogen Gas of Florida, Inc. v. Thomas · Copley v. Flint & Cox
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.
“bi[I]n an action based on lesion, when it appears that it is impossible for the original vendee to restore any of the property because it has been sold in its entirety, the vendor is entitled to be reimbursed for the profit the vendee has realized.”
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.