Kidd v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably Knox v. Long (1953), Lindsay v. Clayman (1952)
71 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule has been announced and applied many times in this state that when the consideration expressed in a deed or other contract is contractual and there is no allegation of fraud, accident or mistake, parol evidence is not admissible to contradict or vary the consideration so expressed, if the result would be to change or defeat the legal operation and effect of the instrument. * * * .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Hernandez““A cash consideration, although nominal, plus the assumption of an outstanding indebtedness, constitutes a contractual consideration”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bates v. Bates
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.