Alderton v. Buchoz’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1924
6 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No contract for the sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise, for the price of fifty dollars- or more, shall be valid, unless the purchaser shall accept and receive part of the goods sold, or shall give something in earnest to bind the bargain or in part payment, or unless some note or memorandum in writing of the bargain be made, and signed by the party to be charged thereby, or by some person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gorman v. Brossard
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.