Rovelsky v. Scheuer’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1938
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 Franklin v. Pollard Mill Co.
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.
““The facts alleged, in other words, show a sale by an agent under parol authorization, payment of the purchase money, and a surrender of the possession to the purchasers. These facts, if proved, take the case out of the influence of the statute of frauds, and make a case of contract of sale specifically enforceable in a court of chancery. The demurrers to the bill were therefore properly overruled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Penney v. Lyle
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.