Hackney v. Morelite Construction’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Anchorage-Hynning & Co. v. Moringiello (1983), Dyer v. Bilaal (2009)
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 21 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 Trossbach v. Trossbach · Morris v. Ballard · Ammerman v. City Stores Co. · Ochs v. Weil · Friedman v. Clark
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intended to guard against the perils of perjury and error in the spoken word, and to protect defendants against unfounded and fraudulent claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The relationship between the parol evidence rule and the statute of frauds frequently has been made more intimate than either rule requires. The former bars the admission of prior written or prior or contemporaneous oral evidence that adds to or is inconsistent with the terms of a written document that constitutes a complete and final (integrated) statement of the parties’ agreement. The latter bars enforcement of certain oral agreements unless there is a written memorandum signed by the party to be charged_ [T]he statute ... does not require an exhaustive, integrated statement of the agreement in writing, but only a sufficient statement to establish that there in fact was an agreement and that the party charged should be bound by it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[T]he mere fact that a contract, definite in material respects, contains some terms which are subject to further negotiation ... will not bar a decree for specific performance.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dyer v. Bilaal
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.