Diehl v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1984
4 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 Mid-Continent Life Ins. Co. v. Goforth · Hawley v. Tolbot · Federal Land Bank of Wichita, Kan. v. Nicholson · Central Commercial Oil Co. v. Indian Territory Ill. 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A vendee who has advanced money, or has done an act, in part performance of an executory contract of sale, and then stops short and refuses to proceed to its ultimate conclusion, the vendor being willing and ready to proceed and fulfill all his stipulations according to the contract, will not be permitted to recover back the money thus advanced."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Massey v. Love“"Where a vendee pays money in part performance of an executory contract of sale and fails to perform it, he cannot recover of the vendor the money so paid."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Massey v. Love
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.