Tidmore v. Handy’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1988
8 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 Springer v. Sullivan · Manning v. Pippen · Craft v. Russell · Allen v. Bromberg · Shannon v. Wisdom
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the following cases, every agreement is void, unless such agreement, or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, is in writing, and subscribed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person by him thereunto lawfully authorized in writing: ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡ “(6) Every agreement, contract or promise to make a will or to devise or bequeath any real or personal property or right, title or interest therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Sentell
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.