Franklin v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 36 Cal. 3d 752 - Seaman's Direct Buying Service, Inc. v. Standard Oil Co. (1984), 39 Cal. 3d 18 - Tenzer v. Superscope, Inc. (1985)
5 federal appellate · 63 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 Monarco v. Lo Greco · Zellner v. Wassman · 96 Cal. App. 2d 471 - Ellis v. Klaff · 66 Cal. App. 2d 609 - Gibson v. De La Salle Institute · Searles v. Gonzalez
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he sufficiency of a writing to satisfy the statute of frauds can not be established by evidence which is extrinsic to the writing itself.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“imports the essentials of a contractual obligation although it fails to do so in an explicit, definite or complete manner, it is always permissible to show the circumstances which attended its making.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the memorandum itself demonstrated the existence of a contractual intent on the part of the one to be charged, and extrinsic evidence was necessary only to define the limits thereof.”
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.