Rowe v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1997
10 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 White v. White · Air Conditioning Inc. v. Harrison - Wilson - Pearson · Humber v. Morton · Columbian Nat. Fire Ins. v. Dixie Co-op. Mail Order House · McRoy v. Riverlake Country Club, Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ESCROW AGREEMENT “It is agreed by the undersigned parties to this transaction that the sum of $775.00 will be held in escrow by said Southwest Land Title Co., and the remainder of the proceeds, if any, are to be disbursed at this time. The funds es-crowed hereunder are to be held in the amounts and until the following has been accomplished, to-wit: $500.00 for items included on the attached list 200.00 for repair of the fireplace mantel 75.00 for repair of front door $775.00 Total “Southwest Land Title Co. is authorized to hold said deposit in escrow until the purpose of this agreement has been complied with at which time the deposit will be paid to J. Gordon S. Harris provided said Southwest Land Title Co. has received written approval of such payment from all parties to this agreement. “In the event said written approval has not been received on or before 30 days from this date, then, a representative of Southwest Land Title Co. shall have access to said property to make inspection of same, and will be authorized to make disbursement after the above mentioned work has been completed. “No liability or expense shall accrue against Southwest Land Title Co. by vir tue of said company acting as escrow agent."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Rowe
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.