Butler v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2010
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 6 Utah 2d 18 - Randall v. Tracy Collins Trust Company · Griggs v. Oak · Nybladh v. Peoples State Bank of Warren · Smith v. Portland Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · Mecum v. Metz
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"However, in order for the possession to be sufficient as a part performance of an oral contract, the acts constituting performance must be referable solely to the contract sought to be enforced, and not such as might have been referable to some other or different contract."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Allen · Simek v. Tate“Possession taken pursuant to an oral contract, coupled with payment of the whole or a part of the purchase price, will remove the case from the operation of the statute of frauds and permit the contract, if just and certain, to be specifically performed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Davis“proved beyond the possibility of findings to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simek v. Tate
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.