Grant v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 58 Cal. 2d 528 - Amen v. Merced County Title Co. (1962), 85 Ill. App. 3d 203 - Ames v. Crown Life Insurance Co. of Toronto, Canada (1980)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 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 McDonald v. Thompson · Teasley v. Bradley · Cowart v. Russell · Garbark v. Newman · Bolio v. Scholting
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contract partly in writing and partly oral is, in legal effect, an oral contract. It occurs where an incomplete writing, or one expressing only part of what is meant, is by oral words rounded into the full contract ... [I]f a written agreement is so indefinite as to necessitate a resort to parol testimony to make it complete, the ... statute of limitations concerning “contracts not in writing” would be applicable, just as though the contract had rested entirely in parol.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matherly v. Hanson“A cause of action is not upon an instrument in writing within the meaning of the code because it is in some way remotely or indirectly connected with the instrument or because the instrument might be a link in the chain of evidence establishing the cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order for an action to be upon an instrument in writing it must in itself contain a contract or promise to do the thing for the nonperformance of which the action is brought.”
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.