Clark v. Larkin’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Barnhart v. McKinney (1984), Botkin v. Security State Bank (2006)
4 district · 21 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 King v. Stephens · Hazen v. Garey · Hampe v. Sage · Wing v. Mollett · Nauman v. Powers
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A memorandum, in order to be enforceable under the statute of frauds, may be any document or writing, formal or informal, signed by the party to be charged or by his lawfully authorized agent, which states with reasonable certainty ( a ) each party to the contract either by his own name, or by such a description as will serve to identify him, or by the name or description of his agent, ( b ) the land or other subject matter to which the contract relates, and ( c ) the terms and conditions of all the promises constituting the contract and by whom and to whom the promises are made." Syl. ¶ 2.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[1] A writing relied upon to constitute the memorandum must in and of itself furnish the evidence that the minds of the parties met as to the particular property which the one proposed to sell and the other agreed to buy; when such evidence is not found in the writing, it cannot be supplied by parol, [2] but if it is found there [in the writing], parol evidence of extrinsic circumstances may be resorted to for the purpose of specifically designating the property to which both parties are shown to have referred by the terms of the writing.” (Emphasis added.) 172 Kan. at 289 (citing 49 Am. Jur., Statute of Frauds § 349).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"No action shall be brought ... upon any contract for the sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them ... unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnhart v. McKinney
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.