Steel v. Eagle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 district · 26 state decisions

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The rule is well established that where parties carry on negotiations and subsequently enter into an agreement in writing with respect to the subject matter, all prior and contemporaneous negotiations are deemed to be merged into the written agreement which constitutes the contract between the parties. Where the agreement is complete, unambiguous, and free from uncertainty, parol or extrinsic evidence tending to vary or substitute a new and different agreement from the one evidenced by the writing is inadmissible. (Citations omitted.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 727 F. Supp. 1392 - Konijnendijk v. Deyoe

2. ““[W]here a defaulting party fails to pay a sum of money as agreed under the terms of a contract, and he has received the consideration for which his promise was made, the measure of damages is, in the absence of special circumstances, the principal sum agreed to be paid with interest thereon from the time it was due. In such a situation the amount stipulated in the contract is prima facie the measure of recovery.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 6 Kan. App. 2d 735 - M & W DEVELOPMENT, INC. v. El Paso Water Co.

3. “is to be placed, so far as it can be done by a money award, in the same position he would have occupied if the contract had been performed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brown v. United Methodist Homes for the Aged