Latimer v. Hamill’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2012
2 district · 10 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ... A part performance of an executory contract, even though not reduced to writing’, is sufficient to take the contract out of the provisions of the statute of frauds. This is true where the party setting up the defense has been in the notorious and exclusive possession of the property under the contract, and in pursuance of the same has made lasting and valuable improvements thereon, which are beneficial to the estate and an expense to the maker. The law upon this question is too well settled to require citations of authority. ...””
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.