83 Wis. 2d 58 - Edlin v. Soderstrom’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably 106 Wis. 2d 368 - State v. Alles (1982), State v. Williams (2002)
6 federal appellate · 42 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 74 Wis. 2d 614 - RTE Corp. v. Maryland Casualty Co. · 70 Wis. 2d 426 - Zweck v. D P Way Corp. · 58 Wis. 2d 499 - Krause v. Krause · 60 Wis. 2d 143 - Gallagher v. Schernecker · 40 Wis. 2d 33 - Baldwin v. Anderson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a right to buy before or ahead of others, thus, a pre-emptive right contract is an agreement containing all the essential elements of a contract, the provisions of which give to the prospective purchaser the right to buy upon specified terms, but, and this is the important point, only if the seller decides to sell. It does not give the pre-emptioner the power to compel an unwilling owner to sell, and therefore is distinguishable from an ordinary option.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'An action for specific performance is an equitable remedy and rests in the discretion of the court.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The Grantors'] right to acquire the property in question is thus conditioned upon the willingness of [the grantee] to sell, and [the Grantors'] right might be enforced by specific performance only where [the grantee's] willingness to sell has been proved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.