Todd v. Hyzer’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Humphrys v. Jarrell (1958), Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Crossman (1961)
2 federal appellate · 45 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 Hooks v. Bridgewater · Holsz v. Stephen · Battle, Et Vir. v. Butler · Wood v. Hammel
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) payment of consideration, (2) possession by the vendee, (3) installation of "valuable and permanent improvements" by him or "the presence of such facts as would make the transaction a fraud upon the purchaser if [the contract] were not enforced."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is well settled that to establish either a parol gift or contract of conveyance of land the one so claiming must establish the gift or contract by clear, unequivocal, and definite testimony * * (Emphasis added.)”
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.