Clegg v. Brannan’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently February 1980 · most notably Ford v. Culbertson (1958), Chevalier v. Lane's, Inc. (1948)
114 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.
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is now well settled that change of possession alone is not sufficient to take the contract out of the statute; that payment of the consideration is not sufficient; that acts of performance must be sufficient to identify the contract in themselves, and with no other view than to fulfill the particular contract to be enforced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kronenberger v. Beke““If his contract was only to pay for lands to be conveyed to him, the delivery to him and the acceptance by him of the other’s written contract to convey lands to him, setting out the terms thereof, would bind him, and it would be a contract that could be enforced in law.””
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.