Rule v. Link’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1979
6 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 Florence Oil & Refining Co. v. McCandless · Mullen v. Bromley
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * He [the plaintiffs in the instant case] elected not to rescind the contract because of plaintiffs’ inability to convey a good title, but rather he elected to accept the title as it was with reduction of the purchase price such as would compensate him for the deficiency. It was defendant’s right to insist upon performance of the contract with appropriate abatement of the purchase price,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murdock v. Pope
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.