Fletcher v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 201 N.C. App. 493 - Phoenix Limited Partnership of Raleigh v. Simpson (2009), Jensen v. Weyrens (1991)
31 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 Williams v. Pilot Life Insurance Company · Knutton v. Cofield · Kakalik v. Bernardo · Blackwell v. Butts · Hodges v. Hodges
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the condition precedent were of crucial import to either or both parties and needed to be fulfilled by a certain date, other than that set for closing, [1] a separate date should have been explicitly included to govern the condition precedent, along with [2] a separate time-is-of-the-essence provision if necessary. It would then have been clear that this particular condition, separate from the act of closing, must be strictly performed by a different date.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“What is a `reasonable time' in which delivery must be made is generally a mixed question of law and fact, and, therefore, for the jury, but when the facts are simple and admitted, and only one inference can be drawn, it is a question of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when time is not of the essence, the date selected for closing can be viewed as `an approximation of what the parties regard as a reasonable time under the circumstance of the sale.'”
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.