Blaine v. Stinger’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2009
16 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 Lockett v. Drake · Sligh v. Watson · 70 Cal. App. 408 - McAdoo v. Moore · Eason v. Heighton · Ball v. California Conserving 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It was a conditional contract to become binding only in the event that a new financial arrangement could be agreed upon should Haydis’ financial in tegrily prove unsatisfactory to defendants. * * * * * * * * “Counsel for plaintiff argues that if defendants had approved the financial integrity of Haydis, they could have enforced specific performance of the contract by Haydis, thereby assuming that it was defendants’ duty to have done so. This assumption has no basis upon which to rest. The condition, that if Haydis was unsafe as a financial risk, new financial arrangements would have to be agreed upon, was of the very essence of the contract. * * * * * * “It will be observed that plaintiff’s cause of action as pleaded is based upon the contract between Haydis and the defendants Stingers and Polk, and the contract between Alvin M. Clark and the Stingers, hereinabove mentioned, and the refusal of the Stingers, without legal cause or just reason, to proceed with the sale to Haydis, whom the plaintiff had procured as a prospective purchaser thereof. “Nowhere in the pleadings before the trial court did plaintiff seek to recover commission upon the sale made to the Sanguinettis based upon the ground that such sale was made during the existence of an exclusive contract between plaintiff and defendants for the sale of said property. “The only ground upon which plaintiff could possibly have recovered is upon the theory that the sale was made to the Sanguinettis during the perio”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * Seller has 2 weeks to investigate Buyer’s Financial Integrity. If dissatisfied, other financial arrangements are to be made. Buyer to pay investigation fee, not to exceed $25.00.’ This contract was signed by all the parties defendant and accepted by Kenneth G. Haydis.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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