Snow v. Snow’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1931
8 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 Anson v. Townsend · Bright v. Bright · Slingerland v. Slingerland · Jorgenson v. Jorgenson · Ferguson v. Trovaten
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is absolutely no evidence of any of the conditions necessary to take the case out of the operation of the statute. Respondent has expended no money for the construction of buildings, and has made no improvements which he might not otherwise have made under the lease in force at the time of the alleged gift. He has not shown that he has clone anything whatever to change his former relation to his father by reason of the gift except remaining in possession after the termination of the original term of lease and receiving the crops without division. Where a vendee relies upon possession and improvements sufficient to avoid the statute of frauds he must enter into possession of the land under and in reliance upon the contract and make valuable improvements thereon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapel v. Chapel
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.