Brooks v. Jensen’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2012
15 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 Williams v. Marshall · Kent v. Clark · Lanning v. Sprague · Nelson v. Hoff · 71 Cal. App. 272 - Lombardi v. Sinanides
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Conceding, without deciding, appellants might in rescission be entitled to damages in addition to return of payments and value of improvements, . . . appellants’ expenses for trips from and loss in the sale of their property in Montana, though necessary to secure funds to make the purchase herein, are too remote and were not sufficiently within the contemplation of the parties to be recoverable.” •”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Even honesty in making a mistake is no defense as it is incumbent upon the vendor to know the facts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Summers v. Martin
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.