Wright v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2012
2 district · 19 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 Heyman v. Adeack Realty Company · Dooley v. Lachut
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Statute of frauds. — No action shall be brought: “Sixth. Whereby to charge any person upon any agreement or promise to pay any commission for or upon the sale of any interest in real estate. “Unless the promise or agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some note or memorandum thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some other person by him thereunto lawfully authorized.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zexter v. Cerrone“inequities in particular cases, it is within the purview of the legislature and not this court to correct what is now wellsettled public policy.”
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.