King v. Gant’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1972 · most notably Murphree v. Henson (1972), Fox v. Fox (1926)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Purcell v. Corder · Corder v. Purcell · Mendonca v. Russell
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A suit in equity may be maintained to enforce specific performance of an oral contract for the conveyance of land, where the moving party has fully performed the terms of such contract on his part.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waters v. Stevens““It is a well-settled rule of law that specific performance will not toe enforced where, pripr to the commencement of suit, the premises were transferred to an innocent purchaser.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnard v. Akers
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.