Crouch v. Forbes’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1930
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Zimmerman v. Zehendner · Keith v. Smith · Forland v. Boyum · Peirce v. Wheeler · Foote v. Robbins
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.
““In the following cases, specified in this section, any agreement, contract and promise shall be void, unless such agreement, contract or promise, or some note or memorandum thereof, be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some person thereunto by him lawfully authorized, that is to say . . . (5) an agreement authoriz 1 ing or employing an agent or broker to sell or purchase real estate for compensation or a commission.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We have a contract partly written and partly oral, which is a parol contract. The statute requiring the contract to be in writing . . . and no such promise being found in the writing, we must look to the oral agreement to supply it, and that we may not do.””
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.