Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. v. Shaffer’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 668 · 1962
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2013
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Wells v. Shriver · Halsell v. Renfrow and Edwards · Halsell v. Renfrow · Atwood v. Rose · American Jobbing Ass'n v. James
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 following contracts are invalid, unless the same, or some note or memorandum thereof, be in writing and subscribed by the party to be charged, or by his agent: ****** (4) An agreement for the sale of goods, chattels, or things in action, at a price not less than fifty dollars, unless the buyer accept or receive part of such goods and chattels, or the evidences or some of them, of such things in action, or pay at the same time some part of the purchase money; * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sellers v. Sellers“[t]he following contracts are invalid, unless the same, or some note or memorandum thereof, be in writing and subscribed by the party to be charged ... (5) An agreement for ... the sale of real property, or of an interest therein....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ny missing link which requires resort to oral evidence to connect or establish the agreement is fatal.”
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.