Abell v. Munson’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1960
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Connelly v. Pierce
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute of frauds requires every contract for the sale of lands to be in writing, and signed by the party making (lie sale. 2 Comp. Laws, § 3179. The rule prohibits any enforcement of parol contracts; and while written contracts, which would have been lawful if unwritten, may be modified by parol subsequently in many cases, yet this cannot be done where the law requires the agreement to be in writing. Goss v. Lord Nugent, 5 Barn. & Adol. 58; Stowell v. Robinson, 3 Bing. N. C. 928; Stead v. Dawber, 10 Adol. & 10. 57; Marshall v. Lynn, (5 Mees. & W. 109; Blood v. Goodrich, 9 Wend. 68 . And our statute goes further than the English statute, by making the contract void, instead of declaring that no action shall lie upon it.””
2 later decisions 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.