McDowell v. Ritter’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1994 · most notably Gilman v. Butzloff (1945), Keith v. Culp (1959)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Miller, Et Vir v. Carr · Naylor v. Shelton · Exchange Nat. Bank of Tampa v. Bryan · Battle, Et Vir. v. Butler · 87 Ind. App. 42 - Lovett v. Lovett
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The law is settled that the statute of frauds applies only to executory contracts and has no application to agreements fully performed on both sides.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.