Lawrence v. Sloan’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 1973
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Simonich v. Wilt · In Re Estate of Smith · Ehrsam v. Brown · Cherry v. Joyce · Oaks v. Hill
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a contract is complete, unambiguous and free of uncertainty, parol evidence of a prior or contemporaneous agreement or understanding, tending to vary or substitute a new and different contract for the one evidenced by the writing is inadmissible.” (Syl. ¶ 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Branstetter v. Cox
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.