Colligan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2014
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Pace Corporation v. Jackson · Cowling v. Colligan · Rio Bravo Oil Co. v. Weed · Armstrong Paint & Varnish Works v. Continental Can Co. · Jones v. Gibbs
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a general rule that an optionor who has given the right to purchase property within a specified time may not commit any act or omit to perform any duty calculated to cause the optionee any delay in exercising the right. 157 A.L. R. 1311. “The failure of an optionee to comply strictly with terms or conditions of an, option will be excused when such failure is brought about by the conduct of the optionor. Jones v. Gibbs, 133 Tex. 627 , 130 S.W.2d 265 , 131 S.W.2d 957 .””
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.