Hudson v. Wakefield’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Hudson v. Wakefield (1986), 318 Ill. App. 3d 304 - Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago v. Thorpe (2000)
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Spence v. . Ham · Antwine v. Reed · William F. Klingensmith, Inc. v. David H. Snell Landscape Contractor, Inc. · Cowman v. Allen Monuments, Incorporated · Schwarz-Jordan, Inc. of Houston v. Delisle Construction 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Breach by Purchaser “In the event Purchaser should fail to consummate the purchase of the property, the conditions to Purchaser’s obligations set forth in Article IV having been satisfied and Purchaser being in default and Seller not being in default hereunder, Seller shall have the right to (1) bring suit for damages against Purchaser; or (2) receive the Escrow Deposit from the title company, such sum being agreed on as liquidated damages for the failure of Purchaser to perform the duties, liabilities and obligations imposed upon it by the terms and provisions of this agreement, and Seller agrees to accept and take said cash payment as its total damages and relief and as Seiler’s sole remedy hereunder in such event.” Id. at 429 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“never even had a meeting of the minds on how much the earnest money was to be as the space in the proposed contract for the insertion of the earnest money was left blank.” 645 S.W.2d 427, 429 (Tex.1983). The Hudson court did not mention Antwine's statement that”
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.