Crow v. Bowers’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2006
9 federal appellate · 9 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 Burgamy v. Holton · Collier v. Mayflower Apartments Inc. · Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Smith · Pennsylvania Casualty Co. v. Thompson · Brown v. Ayer
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)here it is sought to set aside a written instrument which is a full contract of release from all further claims, and not merely a receipt, parol evidence is not admissible to vary or alter its terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henslee v. Houston
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.