Harper v. Goldschmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Ellis v. Mihelis (1963), 213 Cal. App. 2d 729 - Lingsch v. Savage (1963)
4 federal appellate · 41 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 Ide v. Leiser · Worrall v. . Munn · Wilkinson v. Scott · Vassault v. Edwards · Clason v. Bailey
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not the vendor alone whom the statute of frauds and perjuries sought to protect, but the vendee equally. For, as is well said by Ruffin, C.J., speaking for the Supreme Court of North Carolina: ‘The danger seems as great that a purchase at an exorbitant price may by perjury be imposed on one who did not contract for it as that by some means a feigned contract of sale should be established against the owner of the land. Hence the act in terms avoids entirely every contract of which the sale of land is the subject, in respect of a party— that is, either party — who does not charge himself by his signature to it, after it has been reduced to writing.’ Simms v. Killian, 34 N. C. 252 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Wheeler
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.