Blackmon v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2018
1 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 137 So. 2d 201 - Orange Brevard Plumbing & Heating Co. v. La Croix · National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. v. United States · Hendricks v. W. U. Telegraph Co. · Gray v. Sawyer · Richards v. Mindlin
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o use reasonable diligence to make the said title good, marketable and insurable and shall have [a] reasonable time so to do, but if after reasonable diligence on his part, said title shall not be made good, marketable and insurable..., the money this day paid and all moneys that may have been paid under this contract shall be returned to purchaser, and thereupon both purchaser and seller shall be released from all obligations hereunder to each other. Or, upon request of the purchaser, the seller shall deliver the title in its existing condition. [e.s.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hat constitutes reasonable diligence is nearly always a mixed question of law and fact, difficult of definition, and in every instance pivoting on the facts of the particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the exercise of reasonable diligence [does not] require the undertaking of an effort which clearly would be futile”
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.