Wing v. Mollett’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2006
12 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 Broadway Hospital & Sanitarium v. Decker · King v. Stephens · Hampe v. Sage · Ross v. Allen · Hartshorn v. Smart
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the form of the memorandum is not material, it must state the contract with reasonable certainty, so that the substance can be made to appear and be understood from the writing itself, or by direct reference to some extrinsic instrument or writing, without having recourse to parol proof.” (Syl. If 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cassity v. Cassity
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.