Perry v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably In re the Estate of Zweig (1932), Montgomery v. Graves (1945)
14 federal appellate · 39 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 Campbell v. Preece · Bates v. Harris · Posey v. Kimsey · Hall v. Cotton · Moayon v. Moayon
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule prevailing in this jurisdiction is that, if tbe description of tbe property in the deed or writing is sufficient to identify it, so that it can. be designated by parol proof, and tbe words of description in the writing applied with certainty to the exact property which tbe parties bad in mind when making tbe contract, tbe description is sufficient under tbe statute of frauds. Extrinsic evidence is not admissible to identify the property, which the parties bad in mind when making tbe contract, as tbe writing must identify it, when read in the light of tbe facts; but the extrinsic parol evidence is admissible to designate the property which has been identified in the minds of tbe parties, as expressed in the writing” (citing Kentucky cases).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.