Broady v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2017
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 Jones v. Gibbs · Burford v. Pounders · Puckett v. Hoover · Smith v. Hues · Elliott v. Henck
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 earnest money agreement provides that if the purchaser fails to complete the sale for reasons other than the seller’s default, the seller ‘shall retain the earnest money heretofore paid as liquidated damages, and this agreement shall be null and void and all obligations hereunder imposed upon either party shall cease and terminate.’ Since the seller’s only contractual remedy in the event of the purchaser’s default was the retention of the earnest money the agreement did constitute an option rather than a bilateral agreement for the sale and purchase of land.”
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.