Warren v. Dodge’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2011
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 Duval v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 1 E.H. Smith 402 - Thomson v. . Poor · Ewins v. Gordon · White v. Poole · Scheerschmidt v. Smith
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The plaintiff here, having relied upon the oral extension of time given by the defendants, is in the position of a party who has performed his part of the contract. She did all that they required her to do, and, if they accepted less or other than the contract called for, they may not say, after she has taken them at their word and acted thereon, that she thereby lost her rights under the contract. Enforcement of the doctrine of estoppel in such a situation is no limitation or qualification of the statute of frauds. The written contract remains unchanged, but the defendants, by reason of the situation brought about by reliance upon their own words and conduct, may not be heard to say that the plaintiff has not lived up to it. So far as they made a present to her of further time, and so far as she received and acted on it, it was a concession of their rights under the contract. The concession did not alter the terms of the contract. That the result would be the same if the extension had been by written contract does not mean the validation of the extension as an oral contract. The result comes about from action taken upon the extension, and the effect of such action the statute does not undertake to determine."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. Pottinger
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.