Cisco v. Van Lew’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 198 Cal. App. 4th 256 - Fontenot v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (2011), United States v. Gilbert (2001)
20 federal appellate · 33 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 Breckinridge v. Crocker · Schuh Trading Co. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Pacific Vinegar & Pickle Works v. Smith · Irvmor Corp. v. Rodewald · 8 Cal. App. 450 - Hemenway v. Abbott
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]ominee in its commonly accepted meaning connotes the delegation of authority to the nominee in a representative or nominal capacity only, and does not connote the transfer or assignment to the nominee of any property in, or ownership of, the rights of the person nominating him.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The requirement of certainty as to the agreement made in order that it may be specifically enforced extends not only to its subject matter and purpose, but to the parties, to the consideration and even to the time and place of performance, where these are essential.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here is a settled rule of law that a note or memorandum of a contract for a sale of land must identify by name or description the parties to the transaction, a seller and a buyer.”
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.