Litzenberg v. Litzenberg’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2009
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Maryland Commission on Human Relations v. Greenbelt Homes, Inc. · Trossbach v. Trossbach · Boehm v. Boehm · Sealock v. Hackley · Swink & Co. v. Carroll McEntee & McGinley, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No action may be brought on any contract for the sale or disposition of land or of any interest in or concerning land unless the contract on which the action is brought, or some memorandum or note of it, is in writing and signed by the party to be charged or some other person lawfully authorized by him."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court has held that various sections of . the 1677 Statute of Frauds or modern versions thereof, are satisfied by admissions in the form of sworn testimony in court or on deposition, or in an answer to a complaint....”
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.