Wiscombe v. Lockhart Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2006
12 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 14 Utah 2d 205 - Cheney v. Rucker · Bank of Salt Lake v. Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints · 6 Utah 2d 84 - Tanner v. Lawler · 7 Utah 2d 106 - Jeffs v. Citizens Finance Company
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our opinion it is no answer to say that giving notice to the seller, either actual or constructive, places the burden on him to seek out one with whom he had no dealing, and volunteer facts so that an assignee of a real estate contract securing a loan may elect whether to perform the real estate contract or not.... Requiring diligence on the part of one holding a real estate contract securing a loan, under a sort of pledge, to seek out and determine the status of his assign- or’s contractual rights and obligations by way of request, discovery procedure or otherwise, and to require him to make a tender of full performance which his assignor has failed to effectuate does not seem to us to place an unreasonable burden on the lender who desires to protect the consideration for which the contract was assigned or pledged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dirks v. Cornwell
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.