Bishop v. Beecher’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Davies v. Boyd (1963), United Properties Ltd. v. Walgreen Properties, Inc. (2003)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 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 Petrakis v. Krasnow · Coryell v. Hardy · Sargent v. Hamblin · Abbas v. Demont · Dorman v. Fisher
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[CJontracts such as this are utilized as devices to allow purchases of property with very small down payments. This is on the theory that in gaining the advantage of the elimination of the larger initial investment, the grantee must forego whatever advantage he might obtain by reason of the delays incident to foreclosure and redemption. Admittedly, there may be some disadvantages to this type of contract, but it is felt that the advantages far outweigh them when the benefits, which are derived by thousands of people who have been enabled to purchase property by merely paying for it over many years in a manner likened to rent, are considered.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]bsent unfairness which shocks the conscience of the court, the appellees are entitled to enforce the contract as written.”
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.