Quillen v. Sayers’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2017
2 district · 2 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 Shepherd v. Niles · Durand v. Snedeker · Gordy v. Preform Building Components, Inc. · Cannon v. Collins
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.
“a well settled general exception to ... the statute of frauds [which] exists when there is evidence of actual part performance of an oral agreement”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No action shall be brought to charge the personal representatives or heirs of any deceased person upon any agreement to make a will of real or personal property, or to give a legacy or make a devise, unless such agreement is reduced to writing, or some memorandum or note thereof is signed by the person whose personal representatives or heirs are sought to be charged, or some other person lawfully authorized in writing, by the decedent, to sign for him. This section shall not apply to any agreement made prior to May 1, 1933.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shepherd v. Mazzetti
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.