McEwan v. Ortman’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1928
1 federal appellate · 16 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the statute of frauds such a stipulation would be void unless in writing, and the offer was not merely to show by parol a change in the terms of a written contract, but to show such an agreement as could not have been made by parol under any circumstances. The surrender was meant to release an equitable estate in fee simple, and an agreement for such a purpose cannot be made except by an instrument in writing signed by the party releasing or transferring it. A verbal agreement to transfer any other parcel of land would be no more contrary to the statute than one to release or surrender a parcel mentioned in a contemporaneous contract.” McEwan v. Ortman, 34 Mich. 325 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barton v. Molin
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.