Rossi v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Data General Corporation v. Grumman Systems Support Corporation (1994), Slice v. Carozza Properties, Inc. (1990)
2 district · 32 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 Vincent v. Palmer · Ray v. Eurice · McKeever v. Washington Heights Realty Corp. · Spitze v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Western Maryland Dairy Corp. v. Brown
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The law is clear, absent fraud, duress or mutual mistake, that one having the capacity to understand a written document who reads and signs it, or, without reading it or having it read to him, signs it, is bound by his signature in law, at least. An integrated agreement may not be varied by parol where there is no mutual mistake, nor may the parties place their own interpretation on its meaning or intended meaning.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'secondary rule of construction ... perhaps should have but slight force.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.