Wallis v. Bosler’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2001
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Rasmussen v. Baker · People v. Coleman · Adams v. Field · Rigg v. Wilton · Langdon v. Applegate
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) In the following cases every agreement shall be void unless such agreement, or some note or memorandum thereof be in writing, and subscribed by the party to be charged therewith: * * * * * * “(v) Every agreement or contract for the sale of real estate, or the lease thereof, for more than one (1) year;””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * As we view it, the statute means that ‘the party to be charged’ must sign. We think that this requirement would be satisfied if the party to be charged were to authorize another in writing to sign. The giving to another parol authority, or an oral ratification, would not be sufficient. “Such a ruling would place our statute on an equal footing with those statutes which specifically provide that the contract must be signed by the party to be charged or by his authorized agent in writing. We do not believe, as has been suggested, that such a ruling by this court would interrupt or interfere with the free flow of business transacted under contracts required to he in writing. Powers of attorney under the laws of Wyoming would still be recognized and our holding here would in no way change the law with respect to part performance of a contract by a principal as ground for removing the same from the Statute of Frauds.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The statute of frauds was enacted to prevent fraud, not to aid it, and should receive a reasonable interpretation with that end in view. The great majority of courts have always endeavored to keep that principle uppermost in rendering their decisions.”
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.