Simpson v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Garcia v. Karam (1955), Kistler v. Latham (1923)
44 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 Johnson v. Elmen · Robb v. San Antonio Street Railway Co. · Stanton v. . Miller · Thomas v. Hammond · Drake v. . Seaman
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there is a prior verbal contract of sale and the recitals in the deed placed in escrow in themselves, or in connection with other writings submitted' therewith, meet the requirements of the statute of frauds of the jurisdiction in which the suit arises, we think the better reasoning sustains the proposition that the deed so deposited is a genuine escrow, and therefore irrevocable, and that the prior verbal contract so evidenced is thereby rendered enforceable. 2 Elliott on Contracts, p. 570; 10 R. C. L. p. 629, par. 11; Griel v. Lomax, 89 Ala. 420 , 6 South. 741 ; Johnston v. Jones, 85 Ala. 286 , 4 South, 748 ; Campbell v. Thomas, 42 Wis. 437 , 24 Am. Rep. 427 ; Moore, Kappel & Co. v. Ward, 71 W. Va. 393 , 76 S. E. 807 , 43 L. R. A. (N. S.) 390, Ann. Cas. 1914C, 263; Thayer v. Luce et al., 22 Ohio St. 62 ; Minn. & Oregon Land & T. Co. v. Hewitt Investment Co. (D. C.) 201 Fed. 752, 759 ; Bronx Inv. Co. v. National Bank of Commerce, 47 Wash. 566 , 92 Pac. 380 ; McGee v. Blankenship, 95 N. C. 563 ; Blacknall v. Parish, 59 N. C. 70 , 78 Am. Dec. 239 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Day v. Townsend“When a sufficient memorandum of a prior oral contract has been made and signed and suit for enforcement is brought, it is the oral contract that is enforced, and not the memorandum by which such contract is proved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The authorities hold that a valid contract of sale is necessary to render the deposit of a deed in pursuance of the same a genuine escrow.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Daniel
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.