Bobo v. Bigbee’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1998
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Chapman v. Breeze · 149 Cal. App. 2d 621 - Caras v. Parker · American Trust Co. v. Chitty · Rude v. Levy · Handy v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the optionee has made his election and the contract has ceased to be an option and has ripened into a mutually enforceable bilateral contract, it becomes subject to specific performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"... if the case is tried to the court, judgment is deemed rendered when its terms are completely pronounced by the judge and clearly resolve all the issues in controversy. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Miller“[e]nter order findings of fact and conclusions of law and Judgment as per J.E.”
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.