Nelson v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis

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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The note upon its face was a plain promissory note, for $1,000, payable one year from the date thereof, to the payee or his order. Appellee admitted the note was executed and delivered. This completed .the contract between the parties to it. To permit oral testimony that the consideration was to be paid only upon a condition precedent was in contravention of the familiar rule which precludes the admission of parol evidence to contradict or substantially vary the legal import of a written instrument.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 108 F. Supp. 541 - Wilkinson v. Feild