Chambers v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1984
17 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 Daily v. Litchfield · Smith v. Mohn · Canfield v. Westcott
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The provision in the contracts making them null and void if Bohart made default in the payment of his installments, or any installment, was for the benefit of the investment company. The company could have insisted upon this provision, and had the contracts annulled. It also had the right or option to declare a forfeiture for the nonpayment of the installments, or any installment; but it also could waive that right..... A waiver of the right to declare a forfeiture for nonpayment at a specified time is not a rescission of the contract. The investment company, as .the vendor, is entitled to its money upon the contracts, and the vendee to the lots therein described.” (p. 99.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where, in an agreement for the sale of land, the parties stipulate that, ‘ in event of the failure to comply with the terms of the agreement, the vendor shall be released from all obligations to convey, and the vendee shall forfeit all right thereto, and the agreement shall be void,’ the meaning of such clause is, that such agreement is void only at the election of the vendor, who can avoid it or enforce it at his option.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The provision that this agreement should be void was for the benefit of the vendor. On the vendee’s default, the vendor might, therefore, consider the agreement void at his own election, or affirm it, and bring his action on the covenants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.