Sinclair v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Inlet Associates v. Assateague House Condominium Ass'n (1988), S. Utsunomiya Enterprises, Inc. v. Moomuku Country Club (1994)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 50 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 Grafton v. Cummings · Berman v. Leckner · Plitt v. Kaufman · Adams v. Commissioners of Trappe · Croyle v. Croyle
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““any reasonable doubt as to its validity, and such as a reasonably intelligent person, who is well informed as to the facts and their legal bearings, and ready and willing to perform his contract, would be willing to accept in the exercise of ordinary business prudence. Accordingly, a marketable title must be so far free from defects as to enable the purchaser not only to hold the land in peace but also, if he wishes to sell it, to be reasonably sure that no flaw will appear to disturb its market value.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] memorandum, in order to make enforceable a contract within the Statute of Frauds, may be any document or writing, formal or informal, signed by the party to be charged or by his agent actually or apparently authorized thereunto, which states with reasonable certainty ... (3) the terms and conditions of all the promises constituting the contract and by whom and to whom the promises are made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No action may be brought on any contract for the sale or disposition of ... any interest in or concerning land unless the contract on which the action is brought, or some memorandum or note of it, is in writing and signed by the party to be charged or some other person lawfully authorized by him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.