Bellamah v. Schmider’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2018
10 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 O'Brien v. Fricke · Dodge ex rel. Dodge v. Galusha · Wetherby v. Griswold · Mundy v. Irwin · Raith v. Cohen
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he rule is that with certain exceptions, not present under the facts here, a vendee who at the time of the contract knew of vendor’s failure of title to a portion of the land is not entitled, in an action for specific performance, to compensation or abatement of the purchase price. Particularly is the rule denying vendee specific performance and abatement applicable where the vendee not only had actual knowledge of vendor’s lack of title to part of the land at the time of the contract but, likewise, had actual knowledge that vendor would riot acquire title to the missing part so as to be able to convey it to vendee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beaver v. Brumlow
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.