Treacy v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Catesby Woodford T · Gibson v. Crawford · McKnight v. Broadway Investment Co. · Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. Woodford & Ireland · Purcell v. Campbell
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The writing ‘must furnish the evidence of-the terms [of the agreement], for this is the very purpose for which the statute was enacted. The terms * * * are of the very essence of the contract and they must necessarily be reduced to writing.’ ””
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.