Syversen v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gajewski v. Bratcher · JN Exploration & Production v. Western Gas Resources, Inc. · Zuger v. North Dakota Insurance Guaranty Ass'n · BTA Oil Producers v. MDU Resources Group, Inc. · Apache Corp. v. MDU Resources Group, Inc.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Written contract supersedes oral negotiations. The execution of a contract in writing, whether the law requires it to be written or not, supersedes all the oral negotiations or stipulations concerning its matter which preceded or accompanied the execution of the instrument.”
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.