Rogers v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sra v. State of Minnesota · 217 Cal. App. 3d 325 - Neighbours v. Buzz Oates Enterprises · Parr-Richmond Industrial Corp. v. Boyd · Bisno v. Sax · 10 Cal. App. 4th 1446 - American Drug Stores, Inc. v. Stroh
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is apparent that plaintiffs' insistence on proving their right to specific performance was premised on the principle that '[a]n unconditional contract for the sale of land, of which specific performance would be decreed, grants the purchaser equitable title, and equity considers him the owner.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Wolf
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.