Young v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably Stone v. Arizona Highway Commission (1963), Shannon v. Butler Homes, Inc. (1967)
2 district · 52 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 32 Cal. 2d 584 - King v. Stanley · Shreeve v. Greer · Merchants National Bank v. Frazier · Foshee v. Daoust Const. Co. · 35 Wash. 2d 903 - Lechner v. Halling
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 binding contract of sale must exist with respect to the subject-matter of the escrow instrument to support an enforceable escrow, (citing cases). A good definition of the generic term ‘escrow’ is this: an escrow is a written instrument which by its terms imports a legal obligation, and which is deposited with a third party, to be kept by the depository until the performance of the prescribed condition or the happening of a certain event, and then to be delivered over to the grantee, promisee, or obligee, (citing cases). In short, an escrow primarily is a conveyancing device designed to carry out the terms of a binding contract of sale previously entered into by the parties.””
5 later decisions 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.