Wirthwein v. Dailey’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1976
6 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 Harney v. Burhans · Wisconsin Central Railway Co. v. Schug · Douglas v. Vorpahl · Hannon v. Scanlon · Mann v. Becker
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every contract for the leasing for a longer period than one year or for the sale of any lands or any interest in lands shall be void unless the contract or some'note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, be in writing and be subscribed by the party by whom the lease or sale is to be made or by his lawfully authorized agent.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Merten v. Koester · Thiel v. Jahns
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.