Wolf v. Friedman’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2022
2 district · 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 Elder v. . Rosenwasser · Van DeRyt v. Van DeRyt · Blum v. Blum · Shelton v. Pendleton · Conant v. Burnham
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant, upon a special promise, to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person * * * unless the agreement upon which such action is brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, is in writing and signed by the. party to be charged therewith or some other person thereunto by him or her lawfully authorized.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Section 1335.05, Revised Code, precludes an action against a husband by an attorney to recover on an express promise by the husband to pay for legal services that his wife employed the attorney to render for her, where neither that promise nor any memorandum or note thereof was in writing and where it is not alleged and proved that the leading object of the husband in making that promise was to subserve some pecuniary or business purpose of his own, although it may he alleged and proved that those services were necessary for and beneficial to not only the wife but also the husband. ” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is incapable of exact definition; its meaning is variable, depending upon the circumstances, financial and otherwise, of the parties.'”
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.