Scott v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Prestwood v. Carlton (1909), Barton v. Gray (1885)
42 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.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Had the plaintiff in this case obtained possession from the defendant, under the verbal arrangement, the contract would have been taken out of the statute, and would not have been void. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winchester v. Brown““We cannot conceive of such a thing as a contract which cannot be enforced as a contract, and yet can be the foundation of legal obligations arising out of nothing else.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The law does not require the purchaser to sign the agreement, and he is liable, therefore, upon the written contract, though his own assent is verbal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pangburn v. Sifford
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.