Pace v. Perk’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2014
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Goebel v. . Iffla · Neudecker v. . Kohlberg · Hollister v. . Simonson · 53 How. Pr. 1 - Covert v. Henneberger · Weinstein v. . Welden
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every agreement, promise or undertaking is void, unless it ... be in writing ... if such agreement, promise or undertaking [b]y its terms is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof or the performance of which is not to be completed before the end of the lifetime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where performance is possible, however unlikely or improbable that may be, within one year, the agreement does not come within the proscription of the statute....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a parol agreement is, by its express terms, for a period exceeding one year it is unenforceable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.