Equitable Discount Corp. v. Trotter’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1992
15 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 Federal Truck & Motors Co. v. Tompkins · Hambrick v. Peoples Mercantile & Implement Co. · Metropolitan Discount Co. v. Fondren · State National Bank v. Birmingham · Metropolitan Discount Co. v. Flippo
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that there are exceptions to this rule, and we have several times held that even though the contract provided that the written instrument constituted the entire agreement between the parties oral testimony was admissible to contravene this recitation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Loe v. McHargue““We have held that where a contract of sale is in writ-in and recites that it constitutes the entire agreement between the parties, parol evidence is not admissible to vary the terms of the contract. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Loe v. McHargue
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.