Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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

1. ““Except when otherwise specially provided, no evidence of the following enumerated contracts is competent, unless it be in writing and signed by the party charged or by his authorized agent: “(4) those that are not to be performed within one year from the making thereof.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stauter v. Walnut Grove Products · Callon v. Callon

2. ““It has been a long-recognized rule of this court that any conduct, acts, or circumstances offered to show ‘part performance’ in order to bring a case within the exception of the statute of frauds must be referable exclusively and unequivocally to the contract.” See 254 Iowa at 711 , 118 N.W.2d at 605 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Callon v. Callon

3. “A court cannot enforce a contract unless it can determine what it is. In order to be binding, an agreement must be definite and certain as to its terms to enable the court to give it an exact meaning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Palmer v. Albert