Fox v. Easter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

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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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In 8 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law (1st Ed.) 710 it_is stated that the memorandum of an agreement sufficient to satisfy the statute of frauds need not be in any way a formal document, but it must contain the whole contract; it must be made before the action is brought,, and must be signed by the party to be, charged or some one authorized to act for him. And on page 722 of same volume it is jigain said: “ ‘It must show what contract was finally agreed upon, and the exact nature of that contract; accordingly, it must set out the parties, the subject-matter, the price, the terms, and conditions,’ etc. “As to whether an ordinary receipt for money will constitute such a memorandum as will satisfy the law, was decided by the Supreme Court of Indiana at a very early day and the case is frequently cited as a precedent. In Barickman v. Kuykendall, 6 Blackf. (Ind.) 21, that able expounder of the common law, Mr. Justice Blackford, said: “ ‘The. defendant insists that the receipt signed by the vendor for part of the consideration money, is a sufficient writing to satisfy the statute, but that is not so. The receipt, it is true, is not objectionable as a contract within the statute merely because it has the signature of but one of the parties, Laythoarp v. Bryant, 2 Bingh. N. Gas. 735, but it is objectionable as such contract because it does not describe the land, and because it does not state the amount of the purchase money, nor any of 'the other terms of' the contract To ascertain these partic”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McMonigle v. Poorhorse

2. ““Exhibit A. 8-11-1898. “Received of J. D. Fox & Co., ten and no 100 dollars as part payment on E. % of lot 6 in block 41, City of Pond Creek, O. T. “Mrs. Ella Blake.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. J. L. Crump & Co. v. Mails