Michelson v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Blackstone Realty LLC v. Federal Deposit Insurance (2001), Ray v. Wooster (1954)
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Hurley v. Brown · Mead v. Parker · Danforth v. Chandler · Doherty v. Hill · Des Brisay v. Foss
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The receipt names the purchaser. It is signed by the vendor’s agent, and it states the purchase price. The real estate is described as the ‘property sold this day’ (September 5, 1918) ‘at auction — Pawtucket Ave. East Prov.’ The rule is that a description is sufficient to meet the requirements of the statute of frauds if the description can apply to but one parcel of property owned by the seller; the property may then be identified by parol. But the description is insufficient if it applies equally well to more than one parcel of property owned by the seller. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the estate intended [is] the only one which would satisfy the description.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“recit[ing] the essential elements of the contract”
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.