Becker v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1955
12 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 Grafton v. Cummings · Justice v. . Lang · Worrall v. . Munn · Fuller v. Reed · Newby v. Rogers
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract necessarily embraces two parties, each contracting with reference to the real estate — either of whom may be charged upon the contract, if the contract or some note or memorandum thereof is reduced to writing and signed by such party; but neither of whom can be charged, unless the contract or some note or memorandum thereof is reduced to writing and signed by ‘the party to be charged.’ The contract, note or memorandum must in all cases be in writing; it must in all cases be signed by one of the parties, and it must in all cases be signed by the party who is eventually to be charged upon it. And this ‘party’ may be the owner of the real estate, or any other person contracting with reference thereto. In the present case, neither of the parties owned the real estate with reference to which they made the contract. . . . The object of the statute seems to be to require that the proof concerning contracts relating to real estate shall be in writing, and signed by the party against whom the proof is offered.” (p. 701.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The contract, as before stated, was not wholly a contract concerning real estate, but it was also a contract concerning bank stock and promissory notes. If the contract had been solely a contract concerning bank stock and promissory notes, it would be binding upon the parties and could be proved by parol evidence; but as the contract was partially concerning real estate, and as no note or memorandum was made thereof or signed by either of the parties, must the entire contract fail? It would seem from the authorities, that it must.” (Citing authorities.) (p. 702. See, also, Guthrie v. Anderson, 49 Kan. 416 , 30 Pac. 459 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him or her lawfully authorized in writing.” (Gen. Stat. 1915, § 4889.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.