Marlatt v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1967
12 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 Plant v. Thompson · J. F. Aigler & Co. v. Carpenter Place Land Co. · Ratts v. Shepherd, Bucher & McCown · Davis v. L. W. Lawrence & 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Did the plaintiff, under the contract sued on, bring to the defendant a purchaser who was ready, willing and able to purchase the land of the defendant in accordance with the terms under which plaintiff was authorized to make a sale? Ans. The plaintiff did bring the defendant a purchaser, but purchaser was not ready or willing to pay the price asked for in contract, . ■. . ” (p. 479.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.