Houser v. Sheehan’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 1998
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Oklahoma City v. Wells · Davis v. Gwaltney · Miller v. Young · Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Ouart · Appleman v. Pepis
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... is grounds for recission of a contract when such failure defeats the object of the contract or when it concerns a matter of such importance that the contract would not have been made if default in that particular area had not been expected.”
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.