Conley v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1990 · most notably Aboud v. Adams (1973), Viramontes v. Fox (1959)
26 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 Adams v. Blumenshine · Ortega v. Ortega · Crenshaw v. Williams
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that the purchaser is entitled, as general damages for the refusal or inability of the vendor to convey, to recover the difference between the actual value of the land and the agreed price to be paid therefor. This is generally known as the loss. of bargain rule. 27 R.C.L. 631, § 388. This rule when applied to contracts for exchange of land where neither party has conveyed is stated as follows: Plaintiff is permitted to recover the difference between the value of the land which he was to convey and that which he was to receive. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aboud v. Adams
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.