Cantrell v. Lemons’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2000
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 Welz v. Rhodius · Locke v. Murdoch · Fusting v. Sullivan · Wessell v. Havens · Durham v. Lathrop
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rule is generally recognized that where the execution of a written contract has been induced by a contemporaneous parole [sic] promise not relating directly to the subject matter of the contract and such promise is not inconsistent with the provisions of the written contract, it will not be considered as merged therein and evidence of such parole [sic] promise is admissible. 9 Wigmore on Evidence 3d Ed., Sec. 2430; 3 Jones Commentaries on Evidence 2d Ed., Sec. 1492."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]uch an agreement not to engage in business is assignable, and upon sale of the business and good will, will pass to a new purchaser and the assignee may enforce it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.