112 Ind. App. 522 - Sheldmyer v. Bias’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably 96 Cal. App. 2d 471 - Ellis v. Klaff (1950), Kopis v. Savage (1986)
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 Wallace v. Long · Burke v. Mead · Zimmerman v. Zehendner · Bryant v. School Town of Oakland City · Austin v. Davis
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.
““The memorandum must set out the terms of the agreement so fully that the court can know from the writing what the party seeking to enforce the agreement was to do as well as what was to be done by the person against whom it was sought to be enforced. Lee v. Hills (1879), 66 Ind. 474, 480 ; Burke v. Mead (1902), 159 Ind. 252 , 64 N. E. 880 ; Porter v. Patterson (1908), 42 Ind. App. 404, 409 , 85 N. E. 797 ; Neal v. Baker (1926), 198 Ind. 393, 403 , 153 N. E. 768 . “A contract in writing which leaves some essential term thereof to be shown by parol, is only a parol contract, and is therefore not enforceable under the statute of frauds. Wertheimer v. Klinger Mills, Inc. (1940), 216 Ind. 481, 485, 486 , 25 N. E. 2d 246 , 129 A. L. R. 1226.””
2 later decisions 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.