Wheeler v. Blanton’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Dixon v. Shafton (1983), Brawley v. Esterly (1954)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 Kelly v. Thuey · Logan v. Waddle · Leesley Bros v. A. Rebori Fruit Co. · Young Men's Christian Ass'n v. Dubach · Hain v. Burton
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The note or memorandum required by the statute of frauds need not be contained in a single document. On the contrary, two or more writings properly connected may be considered together, and elements missing or uncertain in one may be supplied or rendered certain by another, and their sufficiency will depend upon whether, taken together, they meet the requirements of the statute as to content. Logan v. Waddle, Mo. App., 252 S.W. 469 , affirmed by Supreme Court, 315 Mo. 980 , 287 S.W. 624 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.