Williams v. Noel’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 2002
3 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 Farrey v. Bettendorf · Edgar v. Bacon · Standard Lumber Co. v. Florida Industrial Co. · Schmidt v. Kibben · Gautier v. Bradway
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant's argument that the Statute of Frauds, F.S.A. § 725.01 was not complied with was without merit, because the party against whom the contract was sought to be enforced signed it. Cf. United Hardware-Furniture Co. v. Blue, 59 Fla. 419 , 52 So. 364 , 366, 35 L.R.A.,N.S., 1038 [1910]. See also, Corbin, Contracts, Vol. 5, § 1192, p. 840; Williston, Contracts, Rev.Ed., Vol. V, § 1437, p. 4017; 49 Am.Jur., Statute of Frauds, § 384, p. 686.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“So far as the principle of mutuality is involved as a prerequisite to the maintenance of the suit, it is mutuality of remedy in equity at the time of the filing of the bill that is required, and not a mutuality in the terms of the contract when the contract was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“amounted to an offer of performance by her creating mutuality of remedy at the time of the filing of the suit,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.