Cauthron v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2023
3 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 Lacy v. Wozencraft · Johnston v. Baldock · McFarland v. T. W. Lanier Bro. · McMonigle v. Poorhorse · National Bank of Hastings v. Pierce
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Lacy case recognizes that under some circumstances acts of part performance may relieve an oral contract from operation of the statute upon the grounds of estoppel. But, the rule announced applies only to instances where possession of the tenant asserting the oral agreement clearly appears to have been taken, by virtue of the oral agreement. The facts in the Lacy case, supra, disclose the tenant held possession as a tenant at will. In such instances it is obvious the tenant’s possession results from the oral agreement.””
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.