Kovarik v. Vesely’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2004
14 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 Crabtree v. Elizabeth Arden Sales Corp. · American Nat. Bank of Wichita Falls v. Haggerton · Kelly v. Sullivan · Kenner v. Edwards Realty & Finance Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that the memorandum required by the statute of frauds may consist of several writings. Kelly v. Sullivan (1947), 252 Wis. 52, 57 , 30 N. W. (2d) 209 ; Restatement, 1 Contracts, p. 283, sec. 208; 2 Williston, Contracts (rev. ed.), p. 1669, sec. 580; and 2 Corbin, Contracts, p. 744, sec. 512. It is also not essential to the validity of such memorandum that a particular writing shall have been made with the intention that it constitute a memorandum of the contract. Restatement, 1 Contracts, p. 286, sec. 209.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“this offer is contingent upon buyer's ability to arrange above described financing.”
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.