Fullam v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1986 · most notably Lowe v. Turpie (1896), Crosby v. Jeroloman (1871)
30 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Mallory v. . Gillett · Leonard v. Vredenburgh · Farley v. Cleveland · Cross v. Richardson · Kingsley v. Balcome
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question, whether the defendant’s promise was valid without writing, opens the door to an examination to an almost endless extent of judicial discussion and determination, both in England and this country, and we can hardly hope to do more than to add another decision to the long line, which may serve to perplex future explorers into the true extent and meaning of this section of this ancient statute.””
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.