Faunce v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.2d 753 · 1925
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1987
9 federal appellate · 12 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 Dougherty v. Nevada Bank · Williams v. Morris · Purcell v. Miner · Townsend v. Vanderwerker · Brown v. Sutton
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'“ * * * Clearly, mere declarations •of intention to devise property are not ■sufficient to take a parol agreement to ■do so out of the statute of frauds. Where the promisee shows no substantial .change for the worse in his position an consequence of the agreement, relief will be denied. The test to apply in such a case is whether the promisee might have gone into a court of equity •during the lifetime of the promisor and Rav.e prevented him from disposing of the property in any way he might have deemed proper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.