Ruhling v. Hackett’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2021
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 Arnold v. Lyman · Mosby v. Wall · Clopton v. Martin · Jackson v. Mayo
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.
““Nothing is better settled than that the true construction of the statute of frauds does not exclude the enforcement of parol agreements respecting- the sale of lands in cases of fraud; for, as it has been emphatically said, that would be to make a statute purposely made to prevent fraud, the veriest instrument of fraud; and the same rule governs in case of mistake as of fraud.””
1 later decision 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.