Adams v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Federal Sign v. Texas Southern University (1997), Ford v. Culbertson (1958)
2 federal appellate · 61 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 Wilson v. Fisher · Pickett v. Bishop · Clegg v. Brannan · Sanderson v. Sanderson · Langley v. Norris
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A memorandum is required by the statute of frauds, not for the purpose of obtaining a contract in writing, but merely to furnish written evidence, signed by the party to be charged, of the obligation to be enforced against him. Therefore, a valid memorandum of the contract may consist of letters and telegrams signed by the party to be charged and addressed to his agent or the other party to the contract, or even to a third person not connected with the transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Toland v. Azton““If Clegg v. Brannan, 111 Texas 367 , 234 S.W. 1076 , be construed to hold that mutuality of remedy must exist at the time the contract is entered into in order for specific performance to be available against the party to be charged who has signed the contract or memorandum in writing, it could not be harmonized with the later opinions by this court and would have to yield to them as authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ford v. Culbertson
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.