Schanck v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
229 F.2d 31 · 1956
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Teodore Dorotee Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson, Anthony C. Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson (1969), Harold Wener v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Molly Wener v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1957)
17 federal appellate · 8 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 Brewood v. Cook
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One further point requires discussion, Appellee urges that appellant’s claim is barred by the statute of frauds. We think this is hardly the case in view of the fact that the alleged agreement, or oral contract, concerns personalty, i. e., money received from condemnation proceedings. But even if the contract were within the statute of frauds, it is well settled that the compromising of legal proceedings and the relinquishment of rights in connection therewith (here, the alleged abandonment by appellant of her appeal in the divorce proceeding) are such part performance of an oral agreement as to except it from the operation of the statute of frauds. [Schanck v. Jones, 97 U.S.App.D.C. at 149, 229 F.2d at 32 . (Footnote omitted.)]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Brown“[I]t is well settled that the compromising of legal proceedings and the relinquishment of rights in connection therewith * * * are such part performance of an oral agreement as to except it from the operation of the statute of frauds.”
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.