Busque v. Marcou’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2001
17 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 Zellner v. Wassman · O'Brien v. O'Brien · Canada v. Ihmsen · Holsz v. Stephen · Brown v. Webster
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No action shall be maintained in any of the following cases: ... 4. Contract for sale of land. Upon any contract for the sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of any interest in or concerning them; ... unless the promise, contract or agreement on which such action is brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, is in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some person thereunto lawfully authorized; but the consideration thereof need not be expressed therein, and may be proved otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gagne v. Stevens“In the case of a verbal contract made in consideration of marriage, ... the marriage alone, even though it is in an irretrievable change of position, is not a part performance upon which equitable relief can be based .... [I]t is the consideration of the contract which brings it within the statute, not the nature of the promise made. To say that... the bar of the statute is removed ... by the marriage itself would destroy the statute and make it meaningless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kersey v. Kersey
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.