Deming v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2002
17 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 Ryan v. . Dox · Butts v. Cooper · Lehman v. Lewis · Patton v. Beecher · Nelson v. Shelby Manufacturing & Improvement Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`It is a most important principle, thoroughly established in equity, and applying in every transaction where the statute is invoked, that the statute of frauds, having been enacted for the purpose of preventing fraud, shall not be made the instrument of shielding, protecting, or aiding the party who relies upon it in the perpetration of a fraud, or in the consummation of a fraudulent scheme.' 2 Pomeroy, Eq. Jur. (3d Ed.) § 921, p. 1658."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]quity will not permit a party to retain property, obtained on the faith of a verbal contract , to consummate a fraud by retaining the property and refusing to perform the contract.”
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.