Church v. Case’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1943
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Baird v. . Baird · Martin v. Hamlin · Colt v. McConnell · Holland v. Hoyt · Cohen v. Jackoboice
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where parol evidence is offered to show that the written contract is void, or not of binding force, it is admissible; but if the object be to prove that it was intended to mean something different from what its language imports, it is inadmissible.” Atwood v. Gillett, 2 Doug. (Mich.) 218.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rambo v. Patterson
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.