Caplan v. Stant’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2012
7 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 Ames v. American National Bank · Hoffman v. First National Bank · Brown v. O'Byrne · 14 Wis. 2d 462 - Nutrena Mills, Inc. v. Earle
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.
“The general rule supported by courts is substantially to the effect that when the body of a contract purports to set out the names of the parties thereto and a person not named in the body of the contract signs the contract, and there is nothing in the contract to indicate that such person signed as a party, such person is not bound by the contract and hence is not liable thereunder ... In a number of other cases it was held that under the circumstances the person who signed but was not named in the body of the contract was nevertheless liable on the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The parol evidence rule prohibits the introduction of extrinsic evidence to vary the terms of a written instrument. It does not exclude evidence as to whether a valid contract has been made or entered into between the parties____Nor does it prohibit the showing of the true relation of the parties to the contract, which is among the questions here involved.”
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.