Rhodes v. Wilkins’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2008
2 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 Williams v. Morris · Pitek v. McGuire · Komadina v. Edmondson · Adams v. Cox · Hughes v. Meem
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A written memorandum must contain a sufficient description of the land, or furnish the means or data within itself which points to evidence that will identify it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If it were otherwise, and parol evidence could be used to supply the defect, the purpose of the statute of frauds would at once be defeated and lost.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the writing identify with reasonable certainty the property to which the contract relates”
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.