Houston v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1833
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1994
4 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The act relied on as part performance should be such as would not have been done independent of [the] contract or agreement ... because as you are from the act performed to infer a contract, it must therefore be an act of that description, which will not admit any other inference.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.