Hampe v. Sage’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““No action shall be brought whereby to charge a party upon . . . any contract for the sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them; . . . unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him or her lawfully authorized in writing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nauman v. Powers

2. ““Under the authorities cited, a recital that Sage owned the land which he undertook to convey can be found in the contract itself, by a liberal interpretation of its. terms. Proof that he owned no other land in that county would then render the description, as so-interpreted, absolutely definite.” (Hampe v. Sage, 82 Kan. 728, 733 , 109 Pac. 408 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hampe v. Sage

3. ““ ‘If the designation is so definite that the purchaser knows exactly what he is buying, and the seller knows what he is selling, and the land is so described that the court can, with the aid of extrinsic evidence, apply the description to the exact property intended to be sold, it is enough.’” (p. 733.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Clark v. Larkin