Boddy v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2010
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Wilson v. Fisher · " MOORE" BURGER, INC. v. Phillips Petroleum Company · Wheeler v. White · Smith Et Ux. v. Sorelle · Robertson v. Melton
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A promise or agreement described in Subsection (b) of this section is not enforceable unless the promise or agreement, or a memorandum of it, is (1) in writing; and (2) signed by the person to be charged with the promise or agreement or by someone lawfully authorized to sign for him. (b) Subsection (a) of this section applies to: [[Image here]] (4) a contract for the sale of real estate; .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cohen v. McCutchin“[W]e can only look to the writings for the essential elements of an alleged 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.