Lee v. Cherry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 28 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The letters passing between Mr. Bacon, the agent, and Mr. Cherry, the vendor, refer to and connect with each other, and contain all the terms of the sale and a sufficient description of the property. These letters of the vendor to his agent, stating a proposal of sale, and affirming the sale made by his agent on the terms named by himself, are a sufficient memorandum under the statute of frauds: . . . The party to be charged therewith under the statute is the vendor; and if the agreement be signed by him, or there be a sufficient memorandum of an oral agreement signed by him, he will be bound; for an offer or proposal signed by the party proposing to sell will support an action against him for breach of the contract afterwards made by the oral acceptance of the offer by him to whom it was made, the fact of such acceptance being provable by oral evidence. . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bronx Investment Co. v. National Bank of Commerce