Ricks v. Sumler’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Marine Development Corp. v. Rodak (1983), Cohen v. MAYFLOWER COPR. (1955)
26 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 Wallace v. Long · Grant v. Grant · Lloyd v. Smith · Hale v. Hale · Hendrickson v. Meredith
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When written evidence required to maintain action.Unless a promise, contract, agreement, representation, assurance, or ratification, or some memorandum or note thereof, is in writing and signed by the party to be charged or his agent, no action shall be brought in any of the following cases: .... 6. Upon any contract for the sale of real estate, or for the lease thereof for more than a year; ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is a general rule of law that he who gains the labor . . . of another must make reasonable compensation for the same. Hence, when one furnishes labor to another under a contract which, for reasons not prejudicial to the former, is void and of no effect, he may recover the value of his services on a quantum meruit. [Citation omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.