Feeney v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently October 1980 · most notably 12 Cal. 2d 501 - Mary Pickford Co. v. Bayly Bros., Inc. (1939), Harding v. Robinson (1917)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 88 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Brison v. Brison · Dung v. . Parker · Lawrence v. Gayetty · Dunphy v. Ryan · May v. Sloan
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it clear upon principle that under our statute of frauds and system of pleading it is sufficient to deny the contract without referring to the statute. The old chancery idea that the statute must be specially pleaded grew out of and is based upon the assumption that a parol contract within the statute had some kind of validity. And one of the objects of the pleadings in chancery being for the discovery of evidence, we can readily see how the doctrine arose. But our statute declares, not merely that no action shall be maintained upon contracts within its operation, but that they are ‘invalid.’ A parol contract within such a statute is void.” 79 Cal. 535, 536 , 21 Pac. 988 , 4 L. R. A. 826, 12 Am. St. Rep. 162 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fried v. Lonski
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.