Vaught v. Pettyjohn’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably Turner v. Halliburton Co. (1986), 191 Cal. App. 2d 55 - Zimmerman v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n (1961)
26 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 St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Clark · Mewburn's Heirs v. Bass · Jackson v. Stanfield · 18 Tex. Civ. App. 639 - Bell v. Beazley · Scott v. King
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A third party cannot make the statute of frauds available as an excuse for his' wrongful conduct which interferes with and prevents the consumption of a transaction between other persons. The statute cannot be raised by those who were neither parties nor privies to the agreement.” (p. 177.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rice v. Randolph
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.