Case v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1947
10 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would, we think, be exceedingly dangerous,, and tend to weaken confidence in titles generally, if the effect of deeds of conveyance, leases or other written evidences of title conld be thus changed by a verbal agreement, except in very clear cases, where the contract is proved to the entire satisfaction of the court.” Case v. Peters, 20 Mich. 298 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bock v. Newkirk
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.