Slingerland v. Slingerland’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1958
18 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 Sutton v. Hayden · Gupton v. Gupton · 13 N.J. Eq. 246 - Davison v. Davison · Malins v. . Brown · Hiatt v. Williams
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle that must control the decision of the question is stated (in accordance with all the authorities) in Brown v. Hoag, 35 Minn. 373 , ( 29 N. W. Rep. 135 ,) thus: ‘The doctrine of part-performance rests on the ground of fraud. The underlying principle is that where one of the contracting parties has been induced or allowed to alter his situation on the faith of an oral agreement within the statute, to such an extent that it would be a fraud on the part of the other party to set up its invalidity, equity will make the case an exception to the statute.’ That is, equity will not permit the statute, the purpose of which was to prevent fraud, to be used as a means of committing it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schaefer v. Thoeny
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.