Bennett v. Horton’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012
8 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 Head v. Schwartz' Ex'r · Purcell v. Campbell · Cougler v. Fackler · Cheaney v. Wright
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No action shall be brought to charge any person ... (6) [u]pon any contract for the sale of real estate, or any lease thereof for longer than one year ... unless the promise, contract, [or] agreement ... be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Williams
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.