Bates v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1987
16 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 Reagan v. McKibben · First National Bank v. McCarthy · Peever Mercantile Co. v. State Mutual Fire Ass'n of Canton · Murphy v. Dafoe · Larson v. Dutiel
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the court may have erred in its conclusion that defendants waived any defect in the title, we are satisfied that defendants waived their right to rescind because of any defect. Defendants were bound to make the title good under their contract (which duty they recognized), but plaintiffs, having agreed to accept the title without examination, were only entitled to have the defect remedied upon its discovery or damages for breach of warranty; the warranty was no longer a condition precedent entitling them to rescind.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mader v. Hintz“The right to specific performance is founded in equity and a decree for such relief is given instead of damages when by this means a court can do more perfect and complete justice.”
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.