White v. Breen’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1982 · most notably Hodge v. Joy (1921), Searles v. Gonzalez (1923)
28 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Beckwith v. Talbot · Jenkins v. Harrison · Carter v. Shorter · Knox 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The description afforded by bringing together the •several letters would be, substantially: ‘The three lots in Sheffield, Ala., belonging to Albert Breen, viz., the one located on Montgomery avenue and the two on Annapolis avenue’ — the proof being that Breen then owned no other property in Sheffield than the lots in question. This is a sufficient description.” (Page 171.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hampe v. Sage““In short, all that the law demands is a written statement of the essential elements of the contract over the signature of the party sought to be charged, or his duly authorized agent, so that the establishment of the contract be not left to oral evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bunch v. Garner
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.