Cotten v. Deasey’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2015
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 116th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Tobin v. Garcia · Tobin v. Garcia · Sirtex Oil Industries, Inc. v. Erigan · Atomic Fuel Extraction Corporation v. Slick's Estate · Intermedics, Inc. v. Grady
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“require the exercise of honest judgment by the purchaser. Therefore, we hold that a contract of sale conditioned on the purchaser’s determination that financing was available to him in an amount and on terms satisfactory to the purchaser in his sole judgment does not render the contract nonbinding and unenforceable.”
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.