Martin v. Albee’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Sisco v. Rotenberg (1958), Standard Lumber Co. v. Florida Industrial Co. (1932)
40 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 Williams v. Bailey · Cilabot v. Winter Park Co. · Shouse v. Doane · Rude v. Levy · Clark v. Weis
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If the contract is definite as to terms and description of land, is mutual, supported by a consideration, and the vendee may not be amply compensated by damages at law for breach, and the contract is fair and reasonable in all its terms, he should not be denied the relief if he has complied with the requirements on his part to be performed or if the vendor has by his acts, declarations, or express waiver dispensed with such performance. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“present readiness, willingness, and ability in good faith to perform the acts required of one by the agreement, provided the other party will concurrently do the things which he is required by the contract to do, and notice by the former to the latter of such readiness, willingness, and ability.”
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.