Lesseps v. Wicks’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1971
10 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 Prudence v. Bermodi · Rogers v. Hendsley
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a sale of movables may be made by parol, as well as in writing; but if the vendor have thought fit to reduce his acknowledgment of such a sale and of the receipt of the price to writing, under his signature, such written acknowledgment is surely good proof against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. French
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.