Denman v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably North American Uranium, Inc. v. Johnston (1957), Adams v. Little Missouri Minerals Association (1966)
3 federal appellate · 91 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 Holt v. Gordon · Farrar v. Holt · Nelson v. Boggs.
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[[t]he] purpose [of the statute] is to prevent fraud arising from parol testimony as to the terms and conditions of such contract.' In other words, the purpose of the Statute of Frauds is to fix the specific terms of the agreement between the parties. Here, on the other hand, there is no dispute as to the terms; the question is whether the contract has been discharged.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * the ruie is that parol evidence cannot be received to establish any oral condition relating to the contract if the condition is inconsistent with the terms of the written instrument. 32 C.J.S. Evidence, § 935, p. 859. In other words, ‘An oral condition that is repugnant to the conditions stated in the writing, or is offered in substitution for it, is inadmissible.’ Williston on Contracts, Rev.Ed., Vol. 3, Sec. 634, p. 1825.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No action shall be brought in any court in this State for the recovery of any commission for the sale or purchase of real estate unless the promise or agreement upon which action shall be brought, or some memorandum thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith or by some person by by him thereunder lawfully authorized.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.