Givens v. Dougherty’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2024
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Denman v. Hall · Gulf Production Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Gulf Production Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Dracopoulas v. Rachal · Gardner v. Sittig
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[[t]he] purpose [of the statute] is to prevent fraud arising from parol testimony as to the terms and conditions of such contract.' In other words, the purpose of the Statute of Frauds is to fix the specific terms of the agreement between the parties. Here, on the other hand, there is no dispute as to the terms; the question is whether the contract has been discharged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An action may not be brought in a court in this state for recovery of a commission for the sale or purchase of real estate unless the promise or agreement on which the action is brought, or some memorandum thereof, is in writing and signed by the party to be charged or signed by a person lawfully authorized by the party to sign it. 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trend of modern authority seems to be toward the view that an oral rescission of an executory contract is valid notwithstanding that the contract rescinded was one required by the statute of frauds to be in writing.”
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.