Stuart v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1956
17 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 Seitz v. Brewers' Refrigerating Machine Co. · Johnson v. Portwood · Durkin v. Cobleigh · Thomas v. Hammond · Neyland v. Bendy
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule which excludes parol evidence when offered to contradict or vary the terms, provisions, or legal effect off written instruments has no application to collateral undertakings or cases in which the written instrument was executed in part performance of an entire oral agreement.””
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.