Beach v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2015
9 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 Radke v. Brenon · Theis v. Theis · Johnson Ex Rel. Johnson v. St. Paul Insurance Companies · Harris v. Bolin · Albert v. Edgewater Beach Building Corp.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he agreement here was memorialized before a court reporter, not left to the memory of witnesses. Technical requirements regarding memoranda are only aids to discern where the truth lies in a given case. A court will not blindly apply technicalities if they lead to a conclusion repugnant to comment sense. Both [appellants] were present during negotiations and when the stipulation was recited. Both acknowledged that they understood its terms and agreed to be bound by them. If a note or memorandum exists as evidence of an oral contract, it will be enforced. Public policy inhibits perversion of the statute of frauds by those who would deny an oral contract.”
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.