Durkee v. Van Well’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2020
1 district · 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 Garrett v. BankWest, Inc. · City of Sioux Falls v. Kelley · Cooper v. James · Metropolitan Life Ins. v. Jensen · Crawford v. Carter
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The following contracts are not enforceable by action unless the contract or some memorandum thereof is in writing and subscribed by the party to be charged or his agent, as authorized in writing: (3) An agreement for sale of real estate or an interest therein.... However, this does not abridge the power of any court to compel specific performance of any agreement for sale of real estate in case of part performance thereof....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An oral promise to convey real property is enforceable by specific performance where the grantee has partially performed or has acted in reliance upon the promise of the grantor in such manner that it would invoke a fraud or prejudice against the grantee not to grant specific performance thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hahne v. Burr
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.