Stites v. Yelverton’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1998
6 federal appellate · 12 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 Rosenfield v. United States Trust Co. · Duggan v. Matthew Cummings Co. · 118 Cal. App. 2d 636 - Klose v. Sequoia Union High School District · R. J. Daum Const. Co. v. Child · Donnelly v. Currie Hardware Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Parties to an oral, informal agreement may or may not become bound prior to the execution of a contemplated formal writing, depending upon their intention to be or not to be so bound. What is intended is a question of fact depending upon the circumstances of the case.”
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.