Brenner v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 67 N.J. Super. 348 - Guaclides v. Kruse (1961), Straley v. Osborne (1971)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 62 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 R. F. Robinson Co. v. Drew · Parker v. Murphy · Wilcox v. Cline · Agar v. Streeter · Nu-Way Service Stations, Inc. v. Vandenberg Bros. Oil Co.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The terms of the lease imposed upon Helen E. Randall a duty, before selling to the defendants Powers, to fix a specific sum as the amount at which she was willing to sell the premises in question and to afford the plaintiffs an opportunity to buy the same at such figure. Her failure to do so constituted a breach of contract, making acceptance of the option by plaintiffs impossible. This situation, resulting from her own breach, may not be relied upon as a defense to plaintiffs’ suit. “Defendant Randall must be deemed to have sold the seventy-five foot parcel for a sum bearing such ratio to $15,000 as the value of said parcel bears to the value of the entire one hundred foot parcel. Plaintiffs are entitled to purchase the seventy-five feet for such figure, if they so desire.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“must be deemed to have sold the . . . parcel for a sum bearing such ratio to $15,000 as the value of said parcel bears to the value of the entire ... parcel. Plaintiffs are entitled to purchase the [smaller parcel] for such figure, if they so desire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That in the event the land is to be sold, the tenant will be given first preference and allowed to purchase said land if the parties can agree on the price.””
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.