Hunt v. Hammonds’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““With respect to the statute of frauds, we may assume for the sake of argument that the averments of the complaint, especially count 2, show a verbal contract rather than a written one. But the alleged contract is not for the sale of an interest in land. Section 3(5), Title 20, Statute of Frauds, Code. The legal effect of the contract is to enter into a joint adventure, to which plaintiff was to supply the use of land on which defendants, at their own expense, were to erect certain improvements from which profits were in contemplation. Saunders v. McDonough, 191 Ala. 119 , 67 So. 591 . Such an agreement is not within the statute of frauds, supra. 37 C.J.S., Frauds, Statute of, § 119e, p. 615. Nor is it required by any other statute to be in writing.” Id. at 587-588, 60 So.2d at 356 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 251 F. Supp. 3 - Ideal Structures Corp. v. Levine Huntsville Development Corp.

2. “to supply eight acres of land of an uncertain description”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dickerson v. Comm'r