Drake v. Livesay

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the statute of frauds poses no problem when a party adduces “proof of a sufficient written memorandum of the transaction”
• finding that a memorandum of an oral contract to sell “property . . . identified as ‘Emmett and Ethel Dunlow’s property’ and ‘this same property that I had told you we would sell to you’” “express[ed] the essential terms of the contract”
• addressing authority in the agency context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Prospect Development Co. v. Bershader
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-06-11· cited 138×
• Hadeed v. Medic-24, Ltd.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-03-03· cited 82×
• T.G. Slater & Son, Incorporated v. The Donald P. And Patricia A. Brennan LLC
  Fourth Circuit· 2004-09-30· cited 73×
• Luckett v. Jennings
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-09-17· cited 50×
• Acordia of Virginia Insurance Agency, Inc. v. Genito Glenn, L.P.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-03-01· cited 41×
• Moorman v. Blackstock, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2008-06-06· cited 32×
• Reistroffer v. Person
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-01-07· cited 29×
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Weisman
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-02-25· cited 25×
• Troyer v. Troyer
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-03-07· cited 21×
• Timberlake v. Heflin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-03-13· cited 19×
• Fleming v. Bank of Virginia
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-04-25· cited 12×
• Owens v. Ashland Oil, Inc.
  W.D. Virginia· 1989-03-08· cited 12×
• LCS Homes, Inc. v. Driggs Building Systems, Inc. (In Re LCS Homes, Inc.)
  E.D. Virginia· 1989-07-25· cited 8×
• C. Porter Vaughan, Inc. v. DiLorenzo
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2010-02-25· cited 5×
• In Re Thomas
  E.D. Virginia· 2001-03-29· cited 5×
• Saiyed v. Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2015-01-29· cited 4×
• LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. v. Southern California Edison Co.
  E.D. Virginia· 2015-01-16· cited 3×
• Blanchette v. Toll Bros.
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 1999-04-06· cited 2×
• Rollins v. Hicks
  Virginia Circuit Court· 1987-07-24· cited 1×
• In re 8683 Young Court
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 1994-02-04· cited 1×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Rose v. Spa Realty Associates
  New York Court of Appeals· 1977-07-05· cited 345×
• Vasilion v. Vasilion
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-09-05· cited 134×
• Royal Indemnity Co. v. Hook
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1931-01-15· cited 44×
• Reynolds v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-01-12· cited 41×
• Troyer v. Troyer
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-03-07· cited 21×
• Bardach Iron & Steel Co. v. Charleston Port Terminals
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-10-01· cited 21×
• Jennings v. Realty Developers, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-01-19· cited 18×
• Murphy v. Nolte & Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-09-09· cited 13×
• T. Nevil Ingram, Inc. v. Lunsford
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-04-23· cited 11×
• Bloxom v. Rose
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1928-09-27· cited 11×
• Browder v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-06-14· cited 10×
• Turner v. Burford Buick Corporation
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1960-03-07· cited 6×
• Vick v. Howard
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-03-15· cited 4×