Robertson v. Talley’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1933
11 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 Brashear v. Rabenstein · Thimes v. Stumpff · Krhut v. Phares · Longhofer v. Herbel
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No reason is apparent why he may not bind himself personally by a contract that he will procure a deed to land, although he is not certain that he will be able to do so, thereby incurring liability for damages if he shall fail, and for loss by the bargain if he shall be compelled to pay more for the property than he is to receive.” (p. 820.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hampe v. Sage
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.