Smith v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Bourdon's, Inc. v. Ecin Industries, Inc. (1997), Newport Plaza Associates, L.P. v. Durfee Attleboro Bank (1993)
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 25 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 Rg Group Inc Rg v. Horn & Hardart Company · Winston v. Mediafare Entertainment Corp. · Mississippi & Dominion Steamship Co. v. Swift · Hotchkiss v. National City Bank of New York · Ardente v. Horan
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in order for an offer ... to occur, the party must manifest an objective intent to ... be bound”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Statute of Frauds. — No action shall be brought: (5) Whereby to charge any person upon any agreement which is not to be performed within the space of one (1) year from the making thereof * * * unless the promise or agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some note or memorandum thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some other person by him thereunto lawfully authorized.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“More directly, the purpose of the statute of frauds is to prevent the enforcement of oral contracts relating to land. Hence, the general effect of such provisions is to require all contracts concerning real estate to be in writing.”
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.