Thompson v. Schurman’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 66 Cal. App. 2d 609 - Gibson v. De La Salle Institute (1944), 40 Cal. 2d 642 - Edmonds v. County of Los Angeles (1953)
5 federal appellate · 32 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 McCall v. Superior Court · 12 Cal. 2d 334 - Long v. Rumsey · Mercantile Trust Co. v. Sunset Road Oil Co. · Empire Investment Co. v. Mort · 75 Cal. App. 737 - Producers Fruit Co. v. Goddard
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““According to the great weight of authorities, . . . the vendee of real property under an oral contract which is within the statute of frauds may not recover partial payment of the purchase price which he has paid pursuant to the agreement, in the absence of fraud, while the vendor is ready, able and willing to fulfill the terms and conditions of the contract.””
2 later decisions 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.