WERCS v. Capshaw’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Yates v. Ball · Hiltgen v. Sumrall · Wilder v. Cody Country Chamber of Commerce · 152 Ill. App. 3d 269 - Payne v. Mill Race Inn · Dumas v. Auto Club Ins. Ass'n
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.
“"If it were otherwise, every employment contract would be affected and at-will employment would be turned on its head. Allowing performance in the form of employment, to act as a bar to the statute of frauds would render the relevant provision of the statute of frauds meaningless. Any contract where the employee had begun work and received a paycheck would be protected from the application of that statute." Wercs v. Capshaw , 94 P.3d 421 , 429 (Wyo. 2004) (Lehman, J., concurring).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'it is generally held that the uncompleted part performance of an oral contract for employment, not to be performed within 1 year, does not take the contract out of the statute of frauds.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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