Wensler v. Tilke’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2001
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 Hansbrough v. Peck · Long v. Clark · Roberts v. Yaw · McAlpine v. Reicheneker · Hillyard v. Banchor
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.
““Did the plaintiffs voluntarily abandon the land and their contract for the purchase of the same? If they did, the. changes made in the contract at the time the second contract was signed are immaterial. The evidence clearly shows that the option of complying with the contract was always with the plaintiffs; that the defendant was ready at all times to receive his payments and complete the contract; but that upon the plaintiffs’ failure to comply with their contract the defendant insisted on having possession of the premises. The plaintiffs failed to pay the interest, to pay the taxes on the land, and moved away on the request of the defendant that they pay the interest or move off. This shows a voluntary abandonment of the land and of the contract on their part.” (p. 569.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Ericson
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.