Aye v. Fix’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2003
8 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 Rider v. Cooney · Williard v. Federal Surety Co. · Saling v. Flesch · O'Neill v. Wall · Hosch v. Howe
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The chief and most satisfactory index is found in the circumstance whether or not the particular element of the alleged extrinsic negotiations is dealt with at all in the writing. If it is mentioned, covered, or dealt with in the writing presumably the writing was meant to represent all the transactions on that element.””
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.