Maloy v. Boyett’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 1994 · most notably Willis v. Fowler (1931), Williams v. Bailey (1915)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 Halsell v. Renfrow and Edwards · Iron Age Publishing Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Cooper v. Colson · Knox v. Spratt · Allen v. Young
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts of equity, in establishing the doctrine invoked by plaintiff, have not by any means intended to annul the statute of frauds, but only to prevent its being made the means of perpetrating a fraud. In order that a plaintiff may be permitted to give evidence of a contract not in writing, and which is in the very teeth of the statute and a nullity at law, it is essential that he establish, by clear and positive proof, acts, and things done in pursuance and on account thereof, exclusively referable thereto, and which take it out of the operation of the statute.”
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.