Hines v. Tripp’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 20 N.C. App. 11 - Mezzanotte v. Freeland (1973), 7 N.C. App. 590 - Yaggy v. BVD COMPANY (1970)
25 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 Lane v. Coe · Jamerson v. . Logan · Humphrey v. Faison · Pickelsimer Ex Rel. Gash v. Pickelsimer · McCraw v. Llewellyn
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All contracts to sell or convey any lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them, . . . shall be void unless said contract, or some memorandum or note thereof, be put in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some other person by him thereto lawfully authorized.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he memorandum ... is sufficient if the contract provisions can be determined from separate but related writings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The statute [of frauds], by express language, permits an agent to bind his principal. The agent may do so by signing his name.”
1 later decision 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.