Smith v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
June 1995
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Givens v. Girard Life Insurance Company of America · Huckleberry v. Wilson · Breda v. Guardian Title 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree with the seller. Under the terms of the contract, it was buyer's duty and responsibility to apply for a loan upon the terms stated in the contract. Since the only application made by buyer was on different terms than those specified, buyer, by his own act, made it impossible to determine whether a loan on the specified terms would be “approved” by a lender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herbage v. Snoddy“[Wjhere the buyer’s contractual right to recover its earnest money is conditioned upon buyer’s inability to secure financing on stated terms, the condition is not met if the buyer fails to apply for a loan on the stated terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herbage v. Snoddy
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.