Hicks v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Lee v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. (1977), Antonellis v. Northgate Construction Corp. (1973)
16 federal appellate · 18 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 Ware v. Allen · Reynolds v. . Robinson · Grannis v. . Stevens · Hartford Fire Insurance v. Wilson · Saltzman v. Barson
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] certain disparity is inevitable, of course, whenever a written promise is, by oral agreement of the parties, made conditional upon an event not expressed in the writing. Quite obviously, though, the parol evidence rule does not bar proof of every oraUy established condition precedent, but only of those which in a real sense contradict the terms of the written agreement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The applicable law is clear, the relevant principles settled. Parol testimony is admissible to prove a condition precedent to the legal effectiveness of a written agreement if the condition does not contradict the express terms of such written agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is certainly not improbable that parties contracting in these circumstances would make the asserted oral agreement . . . .”
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.