Lawrence v. Springer’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Friedman v. Tappan Development Corp. (1956), Profile Cotton Mills v. Calhoun Water Co. (1914)
25 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Phillips v. Thompson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing is clearer or more settled than that in all cases in which any court has validated an encumbrance imposed upon land by force of a parole contract that such contract has been required to be proved to the point of demonstration and that a repudiation of it would work irreparable injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When A permits B to build a house upon his land, the situation almost necessarily implies the existence of some contract which is thus partly performed between them; * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Forbes v. Forbes
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.