Nettles v. Doss’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1980
6 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 Kalb v. Feuerstein · Kalb v. Feuerstein · Allen v. Allen · Friedsam v. Rose · Watkins v. Watkins
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The pleadings and proof of the appellants go no further than to show that the ap-pellee agreed to purchase the land with his own money and at some later date to reconvey the same to the appellants upon their repayment to him of the money he had necessarily expended in the transaction. [A]t the time of the purchase of the land by the appellee the appellants had no interest therein, nor did they furnish or become bound for any part of the purchase price paid by the appellee. The purported parol promise of the appellee was therefore, without consideration, comes within the inhibition of the statute of frauds, and is unenforceable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Criss v. Bitzegaio
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.