Harper v. Pauley’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1997
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 130 W. Va. 121 - Bennett v. Neff · Francis v. Thomas · Frey v. Clifford · Robert Barry v. Griffith Coombe · 35 Wash. 2d 223 - Martin v. Seigel
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is essential for the memorandum relied on to take the contract out of the operation of the statute [of frauds] that it contain every essential element of the agreement, except under our statute it need not state the consideration. In all other respects it must be a valid common law contract, having the element of certainty. Of course, that is certain which may be made certain....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unless the contract or some note or memorandum thereof be in writing and signed by the party to be charged thereby....”
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.