Reed v. Wadsworth’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2023
21 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 General Protective Committee v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Lane v. Coe · 13 Utah 2d 83 - Bunnell v. Bills · Aboud v. Adams · Shull v. Sexton
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“other sales of the same or similar property, which were transacted reasonably close in time and distance and under comparable market conditions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Damages for a breach of contract for sale of real property are not difficult of accurate estimation. They are measured by the difference between the contract price and the value of the property at the time of the breach of contract. Such damages represent the loss of the bargain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Piroschak v. Whelan
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.