Jenkins v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Barnewall v. Murrell (1895), Searles v. Gonzalez (1923)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Beckwith v. Talbot · Salmon Falls Manufacturing Co. v. Goddard · Cagger v. . Lansing · Parker and Another v. Judges of the Circuit · Peabody v. . Speyers
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute book contains no more salutary enactment than the statute of frauds. We intend a rigid adherence to its terms and purposes. We would not, if we had the power, add to it exceptions, or relax its operation, to meet the necessities and justice of particular cases. But, when the words of the statute are satisfied—when all its purposes are met—when a contract is in writing, or when there is in writing a note or memorandum of the contract, certain and definite in its terms, signed by the party to be charged, there is all the evidence the statute requires, and it is without application or operation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bunch v. Garner““A deed, drawn and executed with the knowledge of both parties, with a view to the consummation of the contract of sale, which, in itself and of itself, embodies the substance, though not all the details or particulars of the contract, naming the parties, expressing the consideration, and describing the lands, though not delivered, and its delivery postponed until the happening of a future event, is a note or memorandum of the contract sufficient to satisfy the words, the spirit, and purposes of the statute of frauds.” (Page 358.)”
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.