Eckard v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2017
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 R. I. Realty Co. v. Terrell · 18 Utah 2d 368 - Pitcher v. Lauritzen · People v. One 1941 Chrysler Sedan · Chournos v. Evona Inv. Co. · Tamura v. DeIuliis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(specific performance cannot be granted unless the terms [of the contract] are clear, and that clarity must be found from the language used in the document,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[r]ealty has always been held to be unique,”
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.