Long v. Towne’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 18 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Labram v. Havel (1995), Executive Management, Ltd. v. Ticor Title Insurance (1998)
5 federal appellate · 18 district · 12 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 Difronzo v. United States · Ford v. Guarantee Abstract & Title Co. · 147 Cal. App. 2d 357 - Stevens v. Marco · Dugan v. Jones · Golden v. Tomiyasu
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mere inadequacy of price is not sufficient to justify setting aside a foreclosure sale, absent a showing of fraud, unfairness or oppression.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[constructive fraud is the breach of some legal or equitable duty which, irrespective of moral guilt, the law declares fraudulent because of its tendency to deceive others or to violate confidence. Constructive fraud is characterized by a breach of duty arising out of a fiduciary or confidential relationship. A “confidential or fiduciary relationship” exists when one reposes a special confidence in another so that the latter, in equity and good conscience, is bound to act in good faith and with due regard to the interests of the one reposing the confidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perry v. Jordan
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.