29 Cal. App. 584 - Crane v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1947
13 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 Stanton v. Singleton · Windsor v. Miner · 9 Cal. App. 212 - Jolliffe v. Steele · 9 Cal. App. 640 - Valentine v. Streeton
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . and that when a contract of sale of real estate is for any reason incapable of specific performance, it cannot form the basis of a valid claim to an interest therein, and that when such claim is asserted, the owner of the real estate is entitled to a decree quieting his title thereto (Jolliffe v. Steele, 9 Cal.App. 212 [ 98 P. 544 ]; Valentine v. Streeton, 9 Cal.App. 640 [ 99 P. 1107 ]).” (See, also, Archer v. Miller, 73 Cal.App. 678 [ 239 P. 92 ]; Sheehan v. Vedder, 108 Cal. App. 419 [ 292 P. 175 ].)”
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.