Sorrells v. Bailey Cattle Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2020
19 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 Williams v. Morris · Pitek v. McGuire · Moore v. Exelby · The W. T. Rawleigh Co. v. Wilkes · Turrentine v. Thompson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless the essential terms of the sale can be ascertained from the writing itself, or by reference in it to something else, the writing is not [in] compliance with the statute; and if the writing be thus defective, it cannot be supplied by parol proof, for that would at once introduce all the mischiefs which the statute was intended to prevent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Van Dyke v. Glover
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.