Rollins v. Claybrook’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1992 · most notably Jake C. Byers, Inc. v. J.B.C. Investments (1992), Tracy v. Union Iron Works Co. (1891)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Stackpole v. Arnold
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Undoubtedly tbe existence of a separate oral agreement as to any matter-on wbicb a- written contract is silent, and which is not inconsistent with its-terms, may be proven by parol, if under the circumstances of the particular case it may> properly be inferred that the parties did not intend the written-paper to be a complete and final statement of the whole transaction between them. * * * And when the writing itself upon its face is couched in such terms as import a complete legal obligation, without any uncertainty as to the object or 'extent of the engagement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole-engagement of the parties, and the extent and manner of their undertaking, were reduced to-writing.” «”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Marsh
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.