Baldridge v. Centgraf’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1990
4 federal appellate · 16 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 Glass v. Hulbert · Ann Berta Lodge, No. 42 v. Leverton · Baldwin v. Baldwin · Edwards v. Fry · Baldwin v. Squier
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The verbal agreement is not the basis of an action . . . but evidence of its terms is often necessary to establish the implied contract upon which recovery is sought.” (Baldridge v. Centgraf, 82 Kan. 240, 244 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The ground upon which a court, notwithstanding the statute of frauds, may compel the complete performance of an oral contract for the sale of real estate, which has been partly performed, is that such a decree may be necessary in order to avoid injustice toward one who in reliance upon the agreement has so altered his position that he can not otherwise be afforded adequate relief.” (Syl. 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Ireton
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.