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← 257 ARK 853 - Green v. Toney

Green v. Toney’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 1981
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Cole v. Crump · Johnson v. Knowles · Chandler v. Gaines-Ferguson Realty Co. · Freeman v. Kinston Mfg. Co. · Belyeu v. Hudson

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If May had bought the property five minutes after the expiration of the option the brokers’ right to a commission could hardly be disputed, while if the purchase had been made five years later Green’s position would be equally strong. Between the extremes there is a middle ground that falls within the jury’s province.”
    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.