Hall v. Cotton’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 1957 · most notably Prewitt v. Wilborn (1919), Perry v. Wilson (1919)
33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the description contained in the writing either by reference to a water course, or a town, or some well-known local object, or to a former conveyance of record, so identifies the property, which is the subject-matter of the contract, that it may be designated or pointed out in parol testimony by reason of snch reference in the writing to such stream, town, conveyance or well-known object, then parol testimony is competent for that purpose; but that when the description in the writing has no such reference and it is necessary to resort to parol testimony to identify the subject matter of the contract as distinguished from a designation of it, then parol evidence is incompetent and the writing will be held insufficient to satisfy the demands of the statute. ’ ’”
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.