Foster v. Mabe’s Empirical Analysis
1842
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 1972 · most notably Cleveland v. State (1888), Ware v. Hamilton Brown Shoe Co. (1890)
27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ‘when there is a sale of property which would pass by a deed of land as such, without any other description, if it can be separated from the freehold, and by the contract is to be so separated, such contract is not within the statute.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Groves v. Segars
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.