Shaw v. Cornman’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 1982 · most notably Penn-Ohio Steel Corp. v. United States (1965), Suchan Et Ux. v. Swope (1947)
26 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 Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Diamond Coal & Coke Co. · Title Guaranty & Surety Co. v. Lippincott · Henry v. Black · Ranney v. Byers · Weisenberger v. Huebner
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where it is necessary to prove any essential feature of an agreement for the sale of land by oral testimony, the agreement is not in writing within the meaning of the statute of frauds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pierro v. Pierro
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.