19 Cal. App. 695 - Mills v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1959
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 Firebaugh v. Burbank · Howell v. Foster · Jackson v. Jackson · 7 Cal. App. 278 - Hedstrom v. Union Trust Co. · Habenicht v. Lissak
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 court did not err in allowing parol evidence of the negotiations between the parties. The effect of this was not to vary the terms of any written contract. It is apparent that the written memorandum received in evidence is quite incomplete as to the personal property. There was no attempt therein to enumerate or specify the articles definitely, and hence parol evidence was proper and necessary for their identification — in other words, for the purpose of showing that the personal property described in the complaint was identical with that intended to be and actually sold.””
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.