Faulkner v. Ramsey’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Attwood v. Estate of Attwood (1982), Ingram v. Earthman (1998)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]arol evidence 'regarding the relations existing between the parties, the facts surrounding them at the time when they entered into the agreement, and also their acts subsequent thereto' may be considered by the court when interpreting an ambiguous contractual provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Extrinsic evidence which tends to aid, confirm or explain a writing rather than alter it, or which assists the court in understanding and interpreting the language of the writing”
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.