Pugh v. Gressett’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2012
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Joy v. City of St Louis · Slade v. City of Lexington · Mercer Electric Manufacturing Co. v. Connecticut Electric Manufacturing Co. · DeNunzio v. DeNunzio · Ford v. Howgate
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contract for the sale of any personal property, goods, wares, or merchandise, for the price of fifty dollars or upward, shall not be allowed to be good and valid unless the buyer shall receive part of the personal property, goods, wares and merchandise, or shall actually pay or secure the purchase money, or part thereof, or unless some note or memorandum, in writing, of the bargain be made and signed by the party to be charged by such contract, or his agent thereunto lawfully authorized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An offer to sell goods need not specify the price, for, if no price is stated, it will be presumed that the reasonable market price was intended.”) (citing 13 Corpus Juris 268); 1 Williston on Contracts § 4:25 (4th ed. 2000) (If”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Howard comes to Meridian today to take charge of the affairs of the company in line with agreement. Also we are to buy your stock for ten thousand dollars. Terms to be agreed on by October fifteenth.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Giglio v. Saia
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.