Dunn v. Slemons’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1985
15 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 Smith Et Ux. v. Sorelle · Osborne v. Moore · Zimmerman v. Zehendner · Cushing v. Monarch Timber Co. · Jones v. Carver
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 22. No action shall be brought in any court in this State for the recovery of any commission for the sale or purchase of real estate unless the promise or agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum thereof, shall be in writing, and signed -by the party to be charged therewith or by some person by him thereto lawfully authorized. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the promise or agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Volkmann v. Wortham
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.