Nagle v. Nagle’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Haase v. Glazner (2002), Southmark Corporation v. Life Investors Inc Uslico (1988)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 38 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 Hooks v. Bridgewater · Wilson v. Fisher · " MOORE" BURGER, INC. v. Phillips Petroleum Company · Robertson v. Melton · Gilliam v. Alford
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to sign a written agreement which itself complies with the Statute of Frauds.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Statute of Frauds is the Legislature’s directive that courts enforce promises covered by the statute only if such promises are in writing. Equity can avoid the strictures of that directive only by “some positive rule which will insure its exercise for ... the prevention of an actual fraud as distinguished from a mere wrong ... so surely as to leave the statute itself, through the exactness of the exception, with some definiteness of operation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Burger had thus limited the promissory estoppel exception to cases where the promise was”
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.