Alvarez v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 28 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'An act which admits of explanation without reference to the alleged oral contract or a contract of the same general nature and purpose is not, in general, admitted to constitute a part performance.' ” (quoting Woolley v. Stewart, 222 N.Y. 347 , 118 N.E. 847, 848 (1918)), generally approved of in Gene Hancock Constr., 20 Ariz.App. at 125, 510 P.2d at 755; Pair v. Rook, 195 Va. 196 , 77 S.E.2d 395, 400 (1953) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Owens v. M.E. Schepp Ltd. Partnership

2. “A court of equity [therefore] requires that a part performance relied on to take the case out of the statute [of frauds] should be of a character, not only consistent with the reasonable presumption that what was done was done on the faith of such a contract, but also that it would be unreasonable to presume that it was done on any other theory.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beaver v. Brumlow