Friedman v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably Davis v. Dipino (1995), 53 Md. App. 379 - Cavalier Mobile Homes, Inc. v. Liberty Homes, Inc. (1983)
3 federal appellate · 26 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 Trossbach v. Trossbach · Hercules Powder Co. v. Harry T. Campbell Sons Co. · J. A. Laporte Corp. v. Pennsylvania-Dixie Cement Corp. · Sealock v. Hackley · Chicora Fertilizer Co. v. Dunan
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Admissions of a party in testifying, though in form evidence, are in essence not mere evidence, but make evidence against him unnecessary. . . . We think the Statute of Frauds requires no more. Furthermore, admissions of a party in the form of testimony would constitute sufficient “memoranda” under Section 4 or Section 17, or “writings” under Section 7, of the statute. For this purpose we think recorded testimony should be regarded as equivalent to signed depositions.”
3 later decisions 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.