Craven v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2004
2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on In re Whittington · Ansorge v. Kane · Neff v. World Publishing Co. · Glazer v. Glazer · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Skidmore
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [prospective purchaser] was a lawyer of ability, with great knowledge of real estate values in the Lincolnville area based on extensive experience in that field, and in the full possession of his faculties. The [prospective seller], on the other hand, was advanced in years, living remote from the property involved, with access to no reliable information on value in the Lincolnville neighborhood, without any knowledgeable adviser so far as the record shows, and but shortly released from a mental institution, after some six or eight years of confinement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Campbell v. Carr“[I]t has been held that to warrant denial of specific performance, the consideration must be palpably disproportioned to the real and market value of the property so as to constitute a hard, unreasonable, and unconscionable contract, or so disproportionate to value as to offend the normal sense of fair dealing, but it is not necessary that the disparity be so gross as to excite an exclamation or indicate imposition, oppression, or fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Campbell v. Carr“When the accompanying incidents are inequitable and show bad faith, such as concealment, misrepresentations, undue advantage, oppression on the part of the one who obtains the benefit, or ignorance, weakness of mind, sickness, old age, incapacity, pecuniary necessities, and the like, on the part of the other, these circumstances, combined with inadequacy of price, may easily induce a court to grant relief, defensive or affirmative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Campbell v. Carr
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.