Nashville Interurban Ry. v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1990 · most notably Southeastern Aviation, Inc. v. Hurd (1962), Pickwick Stages Corp. v. Messinger (1934)
4 federal appellate · 25 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The rnle that parol contemporaneous evidence is not admissible to alter or vary the terms of a valid written instrument has reference only to the parties to the instrument. It cannot affect third parties who, if it were otherwise, might be prejudiced by things contained in the writing contrary to the truth, through carelessness, ignorance, or fraud. A third party is not precluded from proving the truth about a document however the truth may vary from the statements contained in said document. Myers v. Taylor, 107 Tenn. 364 , 64 S. W. 719 ; Greenleaf on Evidence, vol. 1, 279; 17 Cyc. 749; 10 R. C. L., p. 1020. "”
2 later decisions 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.