Lehman v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 1962 · most notably Lauderdale v. Peace Baptist Church (1944), Montgomery v. McNutt (1926)
59 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Howland v. Blake · Botsford v. Burr · Boyd v. Dunlap · Page v. Page · Tilford v. Torrey & Lockwood
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a man employs another person by parol, as an agent, to buy an estate for him, and the latter buys it accordingly in his own name, and no part of the purchase-money is paid by the principal, then, if the agent denies the trust, and there is no written agreement or document establishing it, he cannot, by a suit in equity, compel the agent to convey the estate to him; for (as has been said) that would be decidedly in the teeth of the statute of frauds.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cushing v. Heuston““The verbal declarations or admissions of the grantee, in whom the legal estate resides, are admissible as evidence against him, and all claiming under him otherwise than as bona fide purchasers for value. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henslee v. Merritt
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.