Davis v. Steingass’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Parol or extrinsic evidence to contradict or vary the terms of the contract of sale as to the property included therein, or as to the description of such property, is inadmissible. Thus it has been frequently held that a contract for the sale of a business cannot be added to by parol evidence of an agreement that the good-will was included or that the vendor should not again engage in such business at a particular place or for a particular time.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rose v. Waddell