Watson v. Coast’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1976 · most notably 133 N.J. Eq. 408 - Martindell v. Fiduciary Counsel, Inc. (1943), Northern Illinois Coal Corp. v. Cryder (1935)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 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 Weaver v. Burr · Tavenner v. Barrett · Barrett v. McAllister · McGuire v. Wright · List v. Cotts
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agreement to sell and convey land, but which is not a conveyance operating as a present transfer of legal estate and seisin, is at law wholly executory, and produces no effect upon the estates and titles of the parties, and creates no lien or charge on the land itself, (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fabian v. Kennedy
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.