Watson v. McCabe’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.2d 286 · 1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2018
3 federal appellate · 4 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 Texas Co. v. Aycock · Old Kent Bank & Trust Co. v. United States · Lambert v. Home Federal Savings and Loan Assoc. · Irwin v. Dawson · 60 Tenn. App. 310 - Batey v. DH Overmyer Warehouse Company
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No action shall be brought: Upon any contract for the sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or the making of any least thereof for a longer term than one (1) year ... Unless the promise or agreement, upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person lawfully authorized by such party. In a contract for the sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, the party to be charged is the party against whom enforcement of the contract is sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Application of the Rules of Decision Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1652 (1970), does not depend on the jurisdictional basis for an action. [citations omitted] The law to be applied by a federal court depends on the nature of the issue under consideration. If the issue is a federal matter, federal law will apply. If the issue concerns a non-federal matter, state substantive law applies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.