Case v. Seger’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1946
1 district · 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 Chester v. . Dickerson · Traphagen v. . Burt · Flower v. Barnekoff
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is contended by the respondents that an agreement to purchase and sell land, which is not in writing, is in contravention of the provisions of the statute of frauds, and cannot, therefore, be enforced. While the appellant contends that a parol agreement of this kind can be enforced. It cannot be questioned that there is a conflict of decision on this point.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Imhoff““We think the weight of authority, and especially modern authority, supports Dale v. Hamilton, and we are inclined to follow the doctrine there announced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Imhoff
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.