Polka v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Corace v. BALINT (Et Al.) (1965), Edward C. Rea and 22 Ford Inc., a Corporation v. Ford Motor Company, a Corporation (1974)
6 federal appellate · 51 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 Schweitzer v. Evans · Smith v. Equitable Trust Co. · Mott v. Kaldes · Thees v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Moats v. Thompson, Exrs.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ujnder the interpretation that has been given to our statute of frauds a recovery of damages may be had for nonperformance of a parol agreement for the sale of land, the measure of damages being the money that was paid on account of the purchase and the expenses incurred on the faith of the contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . it is universally held that sales by auction are within the provisions of the Statute of Frauds to the same extent as any other sale . . . relating to land.”
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.