Allen v. Mohn’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1936
10 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 Griswold v. Sabin · Porter v. Travis · Wasson v. Palmer
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the abandonment of the contract and of the premises by defendant plaintiff had his choice of three remedies: “1. Bill for specific performance. “2. Suit at law to recover the purchase price._ “3. A repossession of the premises, and a suit to recover damages for a breach of the contract. “This latter remedy is supported by the following authorities: Old Colony R. Co. v. Evans, 6 Gray (72 Mass.), 25 ( 66 Am. Dec. 394 ); Griswold v. Sabin, 51 N. H. 167 ( 12 Am. Rep. 76 ); Meason v. Kaine, 67 Pa. 126 , 63 Pa. 335 ; Porter v. Travis, 40 Ind. 556 ; Wasson v. Palmer, 17 Neb. 330 ( 22 N. W. 773 ). In such case the measure of damages is the difference between the contract price and the value of the land at the time of abandonment and re-entry, less what has been paid. This rule is just, and places vendor and vendee upon a footing of equality and mutuality. In order to deprive the vendor of this remedy it must either be excluded by the terms of the contract, or waived by his acts and conduct. In this case the contract does not exclude it, nor has the plaintiff waived it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wesorick v. Winans
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.