Brown v. Beckerdite’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1978
20 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 Arensman v. Kitch · Mckay v. Clark · Hudson v. Riley · Cherry v. Joyce · Setchell v. Reed
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is an elementary rule of law that where parties carry on oral negotiations and later enter into a written contract covering the subject matter, all prior or contemporaneous negotiations and understandings are deemed to be merged in the contract and must be determined from the writing itself. In a case where the contract is complete, unambiguous and free from uncertainty, parol evidence of prior or contemporaneous agreements or understandings, tending to vary or substitute a new and different contract for the one evidenced by the writing, is inadmissable. (Cherry v. Joyce, 168 Kan. 475 , 213 P. 2d 1010 .)” (p. 157)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oliver v. Nugen
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.