Robert Barry v. Griffith Coombe’s Empirical Analysis
26 U.S. 640 · 1828
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Williams v. Morris (1877), Hurley v. Brown (1868)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Colson v. Thompson · Catlin v. Barnard
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, signed by the party to be charged therewith, or By some other person by him thereto lawfully authorized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Riggles v. Erney““The words are, ‘by my purchase of your E. B. wharf and premises, this day, as agreed on between us, $7,578.63.’ Brief as it is, this memorandum contains a condensed summary of all the essentials to a complete contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burns v. Witter
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.