Holk v. Snider’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2009
10 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 McFadden & Bro. v. Henderson · Fulenwider v. Rowan · Smith v. Cleveland
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the buyers] have been ready, willing, and able to perform on their part since the date of the exercise of the option, and they are entitled to have specific performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“overlooked] the fact that . . . it was her agent who sent her the letters on May 12, June 2, and June 19, 1972, enclosing the contract and agreement for [her] approval”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is simply a contract by which the owner of property agrees with another that he shall have the right to buy the property at a fixed price within a certain time.”
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.